Alyssa Brown was born in 1999, nearly a quarter-century after the debut of the arcade game that would change her life. Today, the University of Virginia graduate student is helping preserve a ...

In November 1971, a chrome-flecked cabinet shaped like something out of a Jetsons fever dream started eating quarters in a bowling alley near Sunnyvale, California. It wasn’t Pong. Pong didn’t exist ...

Video games are still a very young medium, which makes their evolution from the almost-comically primitive games of the '50s and '60s to the gargantuan AAA titles of today all the more admirable. But ...

The original Pac-Man was a blockbuster at the time and even stands as the highest-grossing arcade game ever made, but its sequel Ms. Pac-Man blows it out of the water in every way. Released just one ...

Arcades were the biggest and best places to play new games throughout the 1980s, but by the late ‘90s, things began to change. Home game consoles had evolved significantly, offering more options, ...

A new museum in Queensbury, New York, aims to draw pinball wizards and machine tinkerers alike. The echoes of arcade game history fill the otherwise quiet Aviation Mall – they’re coming from Arcade ...