by Patrick Hickey Jr. | Jan 25, 2022 | 1990s, Arcade, Magazine Preview
Light gun games get no love today, but with the popularization of games the likes of Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, Gumshoe and Hogan’s Alley in the 1980s, Nintendo proved they could be big sellers on the console market if done right. In the arcades, however, they were...
by Mike Mertes | Jan 23, 2022 | 1990s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview
October 1999 – A newly christened DJ named DJ Eclipse walked into a mall arcade with his high school friends and surveyed what arcade games were on the floor that home consoles couldn’t easily replicate. There were plenty of light gun games littering the...
by Old School Gamer | Jan 20, 2022 | 2020s, Magazine Preview
Houston Arcade Expo 2021 – by Brett Weiss -page 52 2021 Cleveland Gaming Classic – by Michael Thomasson -page 53 Retro World Expo Gaming Convention 2021 – by Bill Lange – page 54 Read the rest of this article on page 52 by clicking here!...
by Todd Friedman | Jan 19, 2022 | 2000s, Console/Handheld, Magazine Preview, Reviews
I remember it like it was yesterday; walking into Toys ‘R Us to get my young twins some presents for the upcoming holiday season. Of course, when I go into a toy store, the first place I go to is the video game section. Not for the kids, but for me. I was still...
by Kevin Butler | Jan 17, 2022 | 2000s, Magazine Preview, Reviews
First released in 2005, Guitar Hero was like the Konami arcade game Guitar Freaks in which you hit certain buttons as they appeared on the screen. Guitar Hero, though, took this approach to the next level. First, it used a guitar-shaped controller. This controller had...
by Brad Feingold | Jan 15, 2022 | 2020s, Magazine Preview
Normally this is the part where we sit and talk about some of the coolest games that have recently hit the iiRcade. Since we are at the end of the year, it is time to reflect on where the iiRcade is in the video game industry. Now I won’t be talking about numbers,...