Arcade

Philip Reed May 8, 2017

This 1982 newspaper ad comes from before the great video game crash (see Wikipedia), and in looking at this ad...

Philip Reed April 15, 2017

We're taking a short vacation this weekend, visiting Oklahoma City to do a lot of nothing but fun. Well, we...

Philip Reed November 27, 2016

Okay, I may have just won Christmas. Poking through the Google newspaper archives I ran across this K-Mart ad for...

Philip Reed September 26, 2016

After yesterday's Road Blasters post I went in search of more info on the game and soon uncovered this magazine...

Philip Reed September 25, 2016

I've mentioned Road Blasters before (toy commercial posted here), and while searching for info on car combat games I stumbled...

Philip Reed January 5, 2016

From an issue of Videogaming and Computer Gaming Illustrated in 1983 comes this ha-ha funny piece on arcade etiquette from...

Philip Reed December 30, 2015

Back in the eighties we took our arcade games seriously, dumping quarter after quarter into machines and generating millions of...

Philip Reed July 13, 2015

Incredible artwork! Mikey Walters has posted the instructions for Mattel's 1982 Demon Attack game and the center painting was too...

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