When I was a kid (back in the stone age, aka the early 80s), I dreamed of someday owning my own coin-op arcade games. Or maybe just living in an arcade; that would've been fine, too. Never did I ...

A new book by ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Jamie Lendino shows how coin-op arcade machines set the standards all console and computer games aspired to for the first 25 years of the video game industry.

It’s a common sight in our community for a life-expired arcade cabinet to be repurposed as a MAME cabinet with an up-to-date screen and other internals. Many of us have had some fun pursuing high ...

We've known that Arcade 1UP was bringing The Simpsons arcade game back - but we didn't know when. Today, Tastemakers announced that the at-home arcade machine will be released on the 30th anniversary ...

Maybe it's just an 80s or 90s gamer thing, but for a certain subset of the video gaming community, owning a functional arcade — or even a single arcade cabinet — is sort of a dream come true.