Tag: Arcade
Browser Games: The Future of Gaming?
How browser gaming re-ignited my passion for the oldest and purest gaming platform of all: The Video Game Arcade. Have video games become too complicated? When I think of my favourite video games of all time, most of my top 10 would have to be from the Golden Age of the Video Arcade, which, for…
The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade : 1983
1983: The year of the video game crash, and, of course, Return of the Jedi! Home computing, for me at least wouldn’t start for another year. On my cousin’s rubber keyed Spectrum, Horace Goes Skiing didn’t do it for me, and the Arcade was still very much king, the cutting edge of the gaming industry. The arcades, at…
The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade
This new blog series will chronicle a golden age of my life, before home consoles, social media and even mobile phones took over. I was lucky to be born in 1974. As a young boy I witnessed the birth of the arcade computer game (and computer games in general) in the late 70’s, was a…