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Arcade Spotlight – by Steve Juon
“I got a pocket full of quarters, and I’m headed to the arcade.” The song Pac-Man Fever embodied my childhood, but the times have changed. Physical arcades are becoming harder to find, and the ones that do exist face numerous challenges: The cost of electricity to...
Museum Games #6 Space Evaders, Or How Ordinary Public Places of Coin-Op Play Challenge Museums
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...
Evercade Publishes Instructional Video On Sharing Physical Games
LETCHWORTH, UK: Evercade, a brand of Blaze Entertainment, has published an informative instructional video on the process of sharing your physical Evercade game cartridges with friends. In this short video, available...
Retro Review: Year Walk: Strange, But Enthralling
If you thought there wasn’t a mature indie title on the Wii U, “Year Walk” may surprise you. After playing through “Year Walk,” a myriad of thoughts will run through your head. Beautiful, intelligent, dizzying and even flat out confusing are a few of the easy...
Soda Drinker Pro: The Secret Game Inside the Meme
10 years ago, an extremely weird game called Soda Drinker Pro was released on Xbox and Steam. Nowadays, it's not uncommon to see silly simulation-style titles like PowerWash Simulator and Lawn Mowing Simulator, but Soda Drinker Pro hit the ground running long before...
Four Job Fiesta Hits $10,000 Mark for Charity Drive
Last month, the Final Fantasy Five Four Job Fiesta started its usual summer event. Based around the 1992 Super Famicom Game and its various remakes, the Four Job Fiesta takes a simplifying approach to the job-based role-playing game. Instead of utilizing all 22...
Retro Review: Lost Dimension: The Best Vita RPG
With the kind of story any Manga or Anime fan can jump right into and easily palatable turn-based combat, “Lost Dimension,” developed by Lancarse, the minds behind other Atlus favorites “Etrian Odyssey” and “Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey,” is an enjoyable...
INNOVATIVE LEISURE: A HISTORY OF ATARI – by Leonard Herman
When Jack Tramiel left Commodore in January 1984, he started a new company called Tramel Technology with several ex Commodore employees, and his three sons in top executive positions, with the goal of selling a new home computer. When Warner Communications announced...
This Day In Video Game History
