Few sights and sounds define a decade quite like the cacophony of noise and neon-soaked signs that adorned the local arcade. For the 1980s, the arcade industry had its golden age, and new titles were ...

The 1980s followed the lead of the arcade games from the '70s that started everything, expanding the video game industry considerably. Many arcade games from the early '80s defined the scene's golden ...

These five role-playing games from the 1980s helped move the genre forward, but don't get enough love these days.

The 1980s were a weird spot for video games. The industry had a major crash in 1983 and spent the next several years trying to get back to its previous highs. Importantly, that was spearheaded by the ...

Alex Alcock is a passionate writer from England, fusing a love of storytelling and gaming to create informative content. He's been involved in game media for less than a year, but has prior experience ...

I grew up with 1980s home-computer gaming: Atari, Commodore, Spectrum, Amstrad. In the UK, we had, comparatively speaking, no money (yuppies aside), and, rather than being lucky enough to follow our ...

Today is a little tour back to the early 1980s when Mattel released the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Computer Labyrinth Game. [Cameron Kaiser] was dealing with a few boxes of old stuff when he came across the ...

Four decades after I last played it, Chuckie Egg is back, and I am controlling bright-yellow, big-hatted protagonist Hen-House Harry as he collects eggs, seed and avoids angry birds. Better still, I ...

The lesson of MythForce, if Beamdog’s zany roguelite has one, is that parody is easy; homage is hard. It’s simple enough to snicker at the 12-frames-per-second animation of the 1980s, and the cynical ...

A red ghost emerges from a cell in Pac-Man - Bandai Namco Entertainment The 1980s followed the lead of the arcade games from the '70s that started everything, expanding the video game industry ...