Arcade1Up just released a new Ms. Pac-Man and Galaga Countercade. Though both of the new machines are listed as available now ...
Its Micro Player line of mini arcade machines features real working games with full color, backlit displays, tiny joysticks ...
“I am not fixing a washing machine," Patterson said. "I am fixing something that brings people entertainment and joy." He recalls one recent fix of a Ms. Pac-Man machine that left the owner ...
said in the blog that Ms. Pac-Man had been designed to be simple to play but nearly impossible to conquer, in order for people to put more money in the machines. "You want [them to think] 'Oh ...
Inside Midway’s Arcade Revolution” looks back at how the video game arcade industry got much of its start in Chicago.
Gaming on the iPod barely predates the iPhone's arrival in 2007, but fans have launched a project to be sure they can still ...
In the original Pac-Man (released in October 1980 as an arcade game in Japan), the red ghost Blinky was written to follow behind Pac-Man, Pinky is tasked with getting in front of Pac-Man ...
I strolled up to the Ms. Pac-Man machine and hit the well-worn one-player button. I held my DSLR camera with a wide-angle lens in my right hand up to my face and grabbed the joystick with my left ...
If you are 40 or older, I’ll bet you can. Every now and again, a thoroughly 1980s thing will just pop in your life – a Ms. Pac-Man machine glows in the back of a restaurant, the song “Come ...
So you don’t need to go to the change machine for quarters. Visitors can test their muscle memory on classics, including “Ms. Pac-Man,” “Defender,” “Joust,” “NBA Jam,” “Mortal ...
Grown men have been lost for days at a time, only to turn up huddled next to Pac-Man machines in the local chippy making rapturous noises, as if reunited with a long lost son, or slobbering ...
“I was a bit frustrated.” After waiting for the machine to cooperate, the man gave up. “I said, ‘What is going on? The machine won’t give me the right game,’” he said.