IREM Announces Ninja Baseball League-Man: Bases Loaded on Steam, Consoles This December

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Aug 24, 2026 | 1990s, Arcade

Game developer and publisher IREM announced on their Twitter page that their largely forgotten, but cult-favorite beat-em-up, Ninja Baseball Bat Man is getting an HD remake in the form of Ninja Baseball League-Man: Bases Loaded and is coming to Steam, PlayStation5,...

One Game, Five Systems – Donkey Kong

by Marcus Albers | Aug 19, 2026 | 1980s, Arcade, Atari, C64 Vic20, Console/Handheld

Most popular video games eventually end up on platforms other than the one for which they were initially created. Obviously, there are exceptions. You wouldn’t have seen a Super Mario Bros title on a Sega console, just like you weren’t going to see the blue hedgehog...

Museum Games #6 Space Evaders, Or How Ordinary Public Places of Coin-Op Play Challenge Museums

by Raiford Guins | Jul 2, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade

When I visited M05’s Musée Du Jeu Vidéo and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during my university’s spring break in March 2026, I decided to visit London for the day. The urge to see the Design Museum’s “Wes Anderson: The Archives” and “Blitz: The Club that Shaped...

Neo Geo Pocket Color: Arcading Gaming in Your Pocket?

by Marcus Albers | Jun 28, 2026 | 1990s, 2000s, Arcade, Console/Handheld, Gaming

When you think about mobile gaming in the 80s and 90s, you are more than likely going to be thinking about some version of the Nintendo Game Boy. Nintendo managed to dominate the handheld market, even with a number of competitors, many of whom had superior technical...

Museum Games #3 Rapprochement na Habitación da Memoria

by Raiford Guins | Jun 25, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Arcade

I landed in Vigo, but my luggage didn’t. At Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport my lone carry-on gorged the steel jaws of an Iberia Air Lines baggage sizer stationed like a vigilant sentry at the boarding gate. Common carry-on luggage size, I learned, doesn’t...

“The Brickade” – Fully Functioning Lego Arcade Machine

by Todd Friedman | Jun 21, 2026 | 1980s, 1990s, Arcade, Console/Handheld

Holy Moly. That is all I have to say on this one of a kind Lego build.  I literally spent a half hour talking with the creators and being mesmerized by the look and feel of the arcade machine. I went to the Brick World convention in Schaumburg, IL this past weekend...