The 1980s were the golden age of the arcade. Teenagers and young adults gathered in droves at these dimly lit, neon-soaked ...

Milton Bradley’s Dark Tower was released in 1981, and it was a wild piece of early tabletop tech. Players moved around a ...

These five platformers ruled the '80s, taking the genre to new heights, while establishing a few long-running fan favorites.

It’s hard for many people—me included—to appreciate 1980s games if we weren’t around to play them in their prime. However, my perspective entirely changed after playing an ongoing series of ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Nintendo's biggest shift occurred in the 1980s, when they rose to global prominence in ...

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 ...

We’ve made no secret over the years here at Hackaday of our admiration for the Minitel. The ubiquitous CRT terminals which made 1980s France the most connected country in the world never made it to ...

Four very fake, very awesome Adventure Time labels for old Famicom cartridges, for those dreams where you’re running through Super Potato with a basket under your arm, $500 in your pocket and a need ...

The 1980s was the beginning of RPGs becoming a fan-favorite video game genre, thanks in large part to these five franchises.