Inside an Arcade Joystick
If you ever played an arcade game and wondered what was inside that joystick you were gripping, [Big Clive] can save you some trouble. He picked up a cheap replacement …read more Continue reading Inside an Arcade Joystick
Category Archives: arcade game
Atari’s Pac-Man Flop: How a Classic Went Off-Course
For fans of retro games, Pac-Man is nothing short of iconic—a game so loved it’s been ported to nearly every console imaginable. But the Atari 2600 version, released in 1982, …read more Continue reading Atari’s Pac-Man Flop: How a Classic Went Off-Course
Mini DDR Cabinet Gets Maximum Upgrade
Those shrunken-down arcade cabinets are a nifty idea, but they sure do suck in practice. At least, the Dance Dance Revolution game is full of empty promises. With the $25 …read more Continue reading Mini DDR Cabinet Gets Maximum Upgrade
Dante’s Inferno Arcade Reveals Your True Fate
Many of us are vaguely familiar with the levels of hell described in Dante’s epic poem from the 14th century, even if we’ve never visited ourselves. It’s natural to wonder …read more Continue reading Dante’s Inferno Arcade Reveals Your True Fate
Laser Pointer and Arduino Make a Minimalistic Shooting Game
Video games are great and all, but sometimes you just want the thrill of manipulating actual objects in addition to watching action on a screen. This must have been the …read more Continue reading Laser Pointer and Arduino Make a Minimalistic Shooting Game
The Epic Saga of Hacking Knights of the Round
For the uninitiated, Knights of the Round was a hack-and-slash arcade game released by Capcom in 1991 that rather loosely followed the legend of King Arthur and the eponymous Knights …read more Continue reading The Epic Saga of Hacking Knights of the Round
Light Replaces Electrons for Giant Vector-Graphics Asteroids Game
For all its simplicity, the arcade classic Asteroids was engaging in the extreme, with the ping of the laser, the rumble of the rocket, the crash of crumbling space rocks, and that crazy warble when the damn flying saucers made an appearance. Atari estimates that the game has earned operators in excess of $500 million since it was released in 1979. That’s two billion quarters, and we’ll guess a fair percentage of those coins came from the pockets of Hackaday’s readers and staff alike.
One iconic part of Asteroids was the vector display. Each item on the field was drawn …read more
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