TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE ARCADE GAME – by Mat Bradley-Tschirgi

by Old School Gamer | May 25, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Magazine Preview

Beat-em-ups, also known as belt scroll action games in Japan, were all the rage in the 1980s and 1990s in arcades. Players controlled beefy characters who pummeled their way through thugs of a dubious nature with their fists, or a special weapon if they were lucky,...

Mortal Kombat – by Patrick Hickey Jr.

by Patrick Hickey Jr. | May 23, 2026 | 1990s, 2020s, Magazine Preview

Those two epic words helped launch the work of Ed Boon, John Tobias, and the rest of the team behind Mortal Kombat in pop culture lore forever. It’s also made it a video game series that essentially always comes back refreshed and inviting, after over 30 years of...

“Arcade Archives TAG TEAM WRESTLING” and “Arcade Archives 2 TAG TEAM WRESTLING” now available!

by Todd Friedman | May 22, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Opinions

“TAG TEAM WRESTLING” is an action game released by Technos Japan in 1983. Enjoy the world of professional wrestling as you control the hero wrestler and aim to become world champion. Quick move selection and the skillful tag team work unique to tag matches are the...

Dune II – by Mat Bradley- Tschirgi

by Old School Gamer | May 21, 2026 | 1990s, 2020s, Magazine Preview

By far the best and most influential of these is Westwood Studios’ Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty from 1992, a landmark Real Time Strategy (RTS) game that not only laid the way for Command & Conquer, but also for the whole genre. Of course, Dune II wasn’t the...

Stern Pinball releases new Transformers Pinball Table

by William Schwartz | May 20, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Pinball, Stern

  Earlier today, Stern Pinball formally announced through a video and a news release on its website that it has developed and is now selling a Transformer pinball table, specifically titled Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye. This table is themed around the...

Moon Cresta – A faithful recreation of an Arcade classic is coming to the Amiga via Johnny Acevedo(Amiten Games) [BETA 2 UPDATE]

by Indie Retro News | May 20, 2026 | 2010s, 2020s, Indie Built-Retro Inspired

The Commodore Amiga scene has received another hot news story with the first beta tease of a high-performance recreation of the arcade classic, Moon Cresta. Developed by Johnny Acevedo under the Amiten Games banner, this “from-scratch” build serves as a...