The golden age of arcade games ground to a halt in 1983, but before then, players enjoyed five games that would define the legacy of those early gaming halls.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Considering the rise of home consoles that we saw within ...

Video games came of age in the 1980s, with the decade's rapid technological progress paving the way for more complex plots and mechanics. Even though the hardware was incredibly limited by modern ...

Arcade games are designed to make money, and in the early days, that meant pulling in plenty of quarters by upping the ...

Back in the early ’80s, the arcade game Dragon’s Lair was the cutting edge of video game technology. Back then, graphics in games were basic pixels representing tiny spaceships shooting asteroids, or ...