Browsing: Arcade

If your idea of gaming is a quick round at the arcade with friends, here’s something you might want to check out with them.

For decades, Capcom maintained a steady presence in the global arcade scene with its numerous popular games. Whether it was through shoot’em ups like “1942” and “Vulgus” or platformers like “Ghosts ‘n Goblins” or “Strider,” Capcom remained a prominent mover and shaker in the industry. But it was through its fighting games and beat’em ups…

The PlayStation 5 is having a wild autumn. Modders have cracked it wide open, and people are now hauling Steam games onto the console and PS5 games onto their PCs, like two neighbors who swapped houses just to see what happens. Meanwhile, an eBay seller called arcadeplug has gone in the opposite direction, building a…

Nostalgia can play tricks on our memories. Consider exhibit A: the PlayStation arcade cabinet. This hobbyist build combines the thrill of entering a ’90s arcade with the branding and games of Sony’s first console. While some of these games did appear in arcades, a PlayStation cabinet was obviously never a thing back in the day.

If you were adept at evading the ghosts in Ms. Pac-Man, were a champ at jumping the rolling barrels of Donkey Kong, or never met a defender you couldn’t dunk on in NBA Jam …

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TL;DR:Insert Coin is a new arcade on BSV blockchain where every point won is a real payment from your opponent, settled on-chain as it happens. Its builder, a former semi-professional Halo player who goes by @CollinCTO, saysgamingshould replace trading as the way people earn and use BSV. Every game has a free practice mode alongside…

Even as the Nintendo Entertainment System was picking up momentum for home consoles after the video game crash of 1983, arcades were still popular in 1988. Now competing with a resurgent home console market and the growing proliferation of personal computers, arcade titles had to pull out all the stops. Established franchises were revamped significantly…

Arcades were the birthplace of video games, and today gamers are still chasing the thrill of plugging quarters into cabinets and wasting away afternoons with friends. The gaming industry has changed in so many ways over the decades, but arcades still hold power over games. 

With the arcade scene vibrant throughout the ’80s, many popular arcade titles were released in 1986. From racing games to shoot’em ups, the video game medium was growing more diverse and technically sophisticated as the decade progressed. But more than just offering technological advances, many of the games released during this period still retain an…