The handful of arcade video game manufacturers out there today, are producing games that bear little resemblance to those around during the Golden Age. Gone are the days of single coin plays for high scores. Video games today tend to be more about time limited or redemption based gameplay. Which is a shame of course….
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2017 Review & Free to Watch Arcade Movies!
As 2017 draws to a close, I thought some reflection this week would be in order. It’s been another great year for the site with visitor numbers in the hundreds of thousands for the second year running. For a site like this, covering such a niche subject matter, the level of support has been fantastic…
Arcade Raid! The Mississippi Screwjob
It’s Arcade Raid time again here on the blog! This week we head to Mississippi with long time pinball and arcade machine collector Jay, who kindly shared a great set of pictures with me from a raid he was part of back in 2001. Putting the feelers out in the hunt for arcade cabinets is…
Cosmic Guerilla Restoration 2 FINAL
Back again with the final part of this Cosmic Guerilla upright arcade cabinet restoration. If you missed where we got to last time, check out progress here. So having repaired some bowing on the cab, and resprayed the metal parts, including the coin door and marquee retainers, it was time to take a look at…
Free Play Florida: 2017 Review
Well I’m back from my annual trip to America, with a ton of cool classic arcade related info to share – look out for those articles in the coming weeks here on Arcade Blogger. First up, I thought I’d start with a review of the three-day Free Play Florida event which took place on 17-19…
Space Port: Arcade Training Videos
A video post this week. Space Port was a chain of arcades across America usually located within shopping malls. Along the lines of Time-Out, it was a staple of any eighties kid’s world. As the name suggests, the branding was very space age! I came across a couple of interesting videos on YouTube, that I…
Sky Skipper: UK arcade reveal!
Well over a year ago, I wrote about Nintendo’s Sky Skipper arcade game, after UK collector Alex Crowley found an original PCB game board during an arcade raid. If you’re new to this topic, do take 5 minutes to familiarise yourself with the story up to that point here. In short: Alex discovered a Nintendo…
Cosmic Guerilla Restoration 1
I picked up this glorious looking cabinet last year. It was an eBay purchase and I was surprised that I even won it. I threw in a bid that I was prepared to pay, and to my surprise, no one outbid me. You can read more about the pick up here. As with most of…
Arcade Club: Europe’s largest Classic Arcade!
I’m not sure how clear it is from the blog, but for the record, I live in the United Kingdom. Given that much of the arcade Golden Age was centered around the USA, we were very much the poorer cousins of arcade related activity both back in the 80s and indeed today. Many arcade releases…
Play Blackpool: 2017 Arcade Expo Review
The Play Expo Events are now a regular fixture of the retro gaming calendar over here in the UK. These annual shows feature a variety of activities including Cosplay, Retro console systems, traders, guest speakers (check out the talk I gave a few years back in Manchester here), multiplayer LAN gaming and of course video arcade…
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