Welcome back to 1987, with this year’s long list of classic arcade games being impossible to detail in a single article. Here are some of my favourites. 1987 was a turning point for me and my fascination with the video game arcade. It had been a place of comfort for a good chunk of my […]
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1986: Very much the year of the sequel, tech consolidation, and an understandable flattening of the innovation curve. Little did we know that, behind the scenes, this was the beginning of the end for the Video Game arcade. If I had the chance to jump on the video game merry-go-round for any year, it would
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1985: The year the video game arcade reached its peak. Here’s just a few of the highlights. But it wasn’t just in the arcade that 1985 made such an impact. As an impressionable 11-year-old, it had a number of world-changing moments: Wrestling 1985 was the year I first got exposed to the colorful world of
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1984 was a monumentous year, not just for the video game arcade, but for pop culture in general. The arcade’s started to influence the wider world, eventually leading to their demise. So what was so special about 1984? Quite a lot! 1984 Olympics Who can forget the heroic exploits of Daley Thompson in the Decathlon,
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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
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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
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