Browsing: Arcade

As the industry continued its steady rebound from the video game crash of 1983, 1987 proved there was still plenty of life in arcades. From beat’em ups to shoot’em ups, the arcade scene was as robust as ever in the ’80s. Moving beyond the initial technical limitations of the medium, video games from 1987 were…

Classic … video game arcades are finding new audiences. Photograph: Andrew Cline/AlamyClassic … video game arcades are finding new audiences. Photograph: Andrew Cline/Alamy

There is something exhilarating about an arcade racing game, with the genre thriving in the industry since its earliest commercial days. Some of the hit 1970s arcade games were formative racing titles, setting the foundation for more high-octane experiences to follow. Whether you’re racing against the computer or against friends on interfaced cabinets, we keep…

Ever since the days of “Kung-Fu Master” and “Double Dragon,” the beat ’em up genre has been a prominent staple in arcades. Blending hard-hitting action and cooperative multiplayer fun, the genre has redefined itself with progressively more ambitious brawling experiences. There is something cathartic about bursting through waves of enemies, made all the more entertaining…

The racing genre has been a staple in the video game industry ever since its earliest days in the ’70s. Several of the best retro racing games of all time started out as arcade titles before being ported to home platforms. Titles like “Cruis’n USA” and “Hydro Thunder” kept the genre alive in arcades and…

Conway’s Arcade looks like the sleekest possible version of the classic arcade cabinet—except it doesn’t run arcade games from the ’80s and ’90s. Instead, it generates games, and the rules behind them, from scratch using Google’s Gemini 3.0. 

Squingle Arcade, the quickplay version of the award-winning fluid-maze puzzler Squingle, is available now on SteamVR.

The White House launched a new “arcade” website featuring five video games themed around Trump administration policies, including a Tetris-inspired game based on controversial immigration enforcement measures, on Thursday.

The White House launched a dedicated federal government gaming website on September 3, 2026 — five browser-playable retro arcade games promoting President Donald Trump’s signature policies, accessible at both whitehouse.gov/arcade and arcade.gov — formalizing a strategy of unauthorized gaming-IP use that already drew two formal diplomatic protests from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and produced…

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