Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mike Stubbs covers esports, competitive games and the creator economy. Considering the rise of home consoles that we saw within ...

The foundation of the video game industry lies in arcade games that introduced the medium to millions worldwide in the '70s and '80s. Before home consoles and personal gaming computers became widely ...

In pinball aficionado culture, there’s something special about games manufactured between 1979 and 1990. These “solid-state pinball machines” are when electromechanical guts gave way to microchips and ...

While the fighting game genre didn’t truly blow up until the 1990s with games like Street Fighter II and many others, it got its start a decade prior. Fighting games in the 1980s were very different ...

Few arcade shooters have left fingerprints as deep as R-Type. Its imagery is burned into the collective memory: the Force ping-ponging about the screen, the Wave Cannon charging in silence, levels ...

Cold War paranoia certainly seems like a video game fantasy today. There’s something genuinely special about Missile Command, and no, it’s not just that it’s an old game a lot of old people have ...