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The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade: Game Over.

After 1987, for me at least, the video game arcade was on a downward spiral towards oblivion. So where did[…]

Welcome back to 1987, with this year’s long list of classic arcade games being impossible to detail in a single[…]

1986: Very much the year of the sequel, tech consolidation, and an understandable flattening of the innovation curve. Little did[…]

1985: The year the video game arcade reached its peak. Here’s just a few of the highlights. But it wasn’t[…]

1984 was a monumentous year, not just for the video game arcade, but for pop culture in general. The arcade’s[…]

1983: The year of the video game crash, and, of course, Return of the Jedi! Home computing, for me at least wouldn’t start[…]