Collaborate Disseminate
When fully-3D video games started arriving in the early 90s, some companies were more prepared for the change than others. Indeed, it would take nearly a decade of experimentation before …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering Forgotten Konami Arcade Hardware
Porting DOOM to new hardware and software platforms is a fun pastime for many in the hacker scene. [DragonMinded] noticed that nobody had ported the game to the Sega Naomi …read more Continue reading DOOM Ported to Sega Naomi Arcade Hardware
What’s the killer app for FPGAs? For some people, the allure is the ultra-high data throughput for parallelizable tasks, which can enable some pretty gnarly projects. But what if you’re …read more Continue reading Will MiSTer Fool You Into Learning FPGAs?
It was just this year that Sega left the arcade business for good. A company synonymous with coin-op games for over a half century completely walked away from selling experiences …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Raw Video From Inside a 1980s Arcade
If there’s anything you can guarantee about a video game system, it’s that in 20 years after one suffers a commercial failure there will be a tiny yet rabid group …read more Continue reading N-Gage Controller Uses All The Buttons
There’s something about the large imposing wooden box of an arcade machine that lends a confident presence to a room. The problem with a tall and heavy box is that …read more Continue reading Arcade Machine Pack And Play
When [Nicole Express] got her hands on the logic board for the 1986 SNK arcade game Athena, she ran into a rather thorny problem: The board expected to be fed …read more Continue reading Vintage Arcade Used Negative Voltage to Turn Volume Up to 11
Arcade machines have a distinct look and feel with large imposing cabinets and smaller bartop machines that try to keep the look and feel of a traditional upright arcade cabinet …read more Continue reading Bartop Arcade Machine That Isn’t Afraid Of Change
Having an arcade cabinet of one’s own is a common dream among those who grew up during the video game arcade heyday of the 80s and early 90s. It’s a fairly common build that doesn’t take too much specialized knowledge to build. This cabinet, on the other hand, pulled out …read more
Continue reading Solid Oak Arcade Cabinet: When Particle Board Won’t Do
Gauntlet is a well-known arcade game from 1985 with many sequels and ports to more modern architectures such as Xbox and GameCube. Thanks to its popularity and relative age, the original arcade cabinet is well documented with the schematics available online. It was regarded as the most complex and ambitious …read more