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In 1980, a programmer's nightmare became arcade history. Stern's Berzerk pioneered speech synthesis and procedural generation—the first game linked to player deaths.
Konami's 1994 Wild West light gun sequel featured digitized photography, a massive mirror-based cabinet, and supernatural skeleton bosses.
Data East's 1988 beat-em-up asked the immortal question: Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president? This ninja-punching classic became an icon of Reagan-era gaming.
Dave Theurer's 1987 swan song at Atari Games combined satirical humor, quota-based gameplay, and open-world exploration that would influence Grand Theft Auto a decade later.
Atari's groundbreaking 1983 arcade game combined color vector graphics and digitized movie dialogue to deliver the ultimate Death Star trench run experience.
The PlayStation fighting game that wowed players with 3D graphics in 1995 marks three decades of influence.
How a legendary shooter developer created one of the most beloved single-screen platformers of 1990, packed into the smallest circuit board the arcade world had ever seen
Capcom's 1992 arcade hit that made $2.3 billion and let players be the bosses for the first time.
Sega's Hang-On (1985) was the world's first full-body arcade experience. It sold 20,000+ cabinets and became the highest-grossing arcade game of 1985 and 1986.
How Konami's revolutionary tube shooter introduced Bach to arcades, starred a designer who would later produce Street Fighter II, and inspired a 49-hour Guinness World Record marathon.
How a warehouse full of unsold Radar Scope machines became the birthplace of gaming's most famous plumber and saved a company from bankruptcy
How Yu Suzuki and his team created the most exhilarating arcade experience of the 1980s, complete with a half-tonne hydraulic cabinet that was initially deemed 'too dangerous' to operate.
How one Japanese engineer built an entire arcade phenomenon from scratch, sparked a global gaming revolution, and created the highest-grossing video game in history.
Before Pokemon, Dragon Quest V introduced monster recruiting, generational storytelling, and one of the most emotional narratives in JRPG history.
FromSoftware's 2007 feature phone mech action game gets a modern re-release, bridging the gap between Nexus and Last Raven in the AC timeline.
Media.Vision's genre-blending RPG launched on December 20, 1996, mixing Wild West aesthetics with fantasy in a way no game had done before.
Taito's first third-party expansion brings 10 Technōs and Data East arcade classics to the Egret II Mini, including Double Dragon and Boogie Wings.
25 years ago, Sega launched the first successful console online RPG. Its Word Select translation system and late-night gaming culture remain legendary.
On December 18, 1987, Hironobu Sakaguchi released what he thought would be his final game. 38 years later, Final Fantasy has become gaming's greatest RPG franchise.
Twenty-six years after release, Parasite Eve 2 remains a survival horror masterpiece. It's time Square Enix brings Aya Brea back to modern platforms.
On December 6, 2001, Fumito Ueda's minimalist masterpiece taught us that the simplest gesture—holding someone's hand—could be gaming's most powerful mechanic.
33 years ago, Final Fantasy V's revolutionary job system became the blueprint for FFXI, FFXIV, and countless JRPGs that followed.
December 7, 2025 marks four decades since Spelunker's Famicom debut, the infamously difficult cave explorer that gave birth to a gaming phenomenon and even changed Japanese sports vocabulary.
HAMSTER Corporation releases Arcade Archives Bombee on November 20 across six platforms, bringing Toru Iwatani's 1979 block-breaker to Switch, PS4, Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.