I ran away from home when I was 8 years old. I can’t for the life of me remember why. Most likely I was just fed up with people older, smarter, and wealthier than me telling me what to do. But here’s ...

To many, mobile and arcade gaming are so distinct they may as well be entirely different media. In this case we are talking about real arcades; those increasingly rare physical spaces where the games ...

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.

carpeted walls, smoke-filled rooms, black lights, and row after row of brightly colored video game cabinets. For some, the thought of these spaces evoke such vivid memories of playing video games that ...

Martin Lackner confesses that he's just a kid who has never grown up. His "toys" were scattered throughout his Canby home, with a pinball machine next to the dining room table, game monitors in the ...

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You can't beat the feel of an old-fashioned arcade machine where you stand there pumping coins into a slot, trying to extend the gameplay and lay claim to the highest score. The problem with arcade ...

How do you spend your summers? Well, let me tell you about mine. Every July, I rent a large moving truck and fill it with a bunch of arcade equipment sitting in my garage. Then I drive that truck down ...

Kennedy Waymer, a former standout athlete at Paxon School for Advanced Studies who was attending Coastal Georgia on a softball scholarship, died last week after a battle with bone cancer. Read full ...

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.