Published: January 7th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Road Runner is a side-scrolling racing arcade machine game based on a cartoon short,...

Published: December 31st, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Missile Command was developed and published by Atari in 1980. It was licensed to...

Published: December 21st, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Breakout was released in April of 1976 by Atari. But in homage to the 45 year...

Published: December 14th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Star Wars Atari is a rail shooter game that was released by Atari in 1983. Color...

Published: December 7th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Mr. Do is a maze-based game that was developed by Universal in 1982. It was created...

Published: November 30th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Asteroids is a multi-directional space shooter arcade game and was released by...

Published: November 23rd, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann The Real Ghostbusters was released in 1987 by Data East. This game was coded by...

Published: November 15th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Paperboy was designed by John Salwitz, Dave Ralston, Russel Dawe, and Carl Bedard....

Published: November 9th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Defender was released in 1981 by William Electronics and quickly went down in...

Published: November 2nd, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Mortal Kombat came about via game designers John Tobias and Ed Boon, both of whom...

Published: October 26th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Chef Peter Pepper has been building burgers and fighting off pickles for decades...

Published: October 19th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Namco had no idea Dig Dug would bury their concerns and dig up what is currently...

Published: October 12th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann As we all know, Mario came from humble beginnings. He wasn’t always the star of the...

Published: October 4th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Akira Hashimoto worked for a video game developer, Konami, in 1981. Hashimoto...

Published: September 27th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Dona Bailey was born in 1956 in Little Rock, Arkansas. We don’t know much about...

Published: September 17th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Masaya (maa·saa·yuh) Nakamura (naa·kuh·moo·ruh) born in Yokohama...

Published: September 6th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann If we’re going to get into the long-winded tale of Atari and its many deaths, (try...

Published: September 6th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann The day Atari hoped would never come, September 22nd of 1983, was the day their...

Published: August 30th, 2021 Author: Caitlynn Joann Did you know... When you play action-based video games, you’re training to make the...

It’s hard to put a figure on the number of classic arcade machines that are still around. As you will have read on this blog, these...