The '80s was the last full decade where the arcade scene prominently drove the video game industry forward. Many '90s arcade games almost vanished overnight compared to the enduring success of titles ...

Ryu lunges at a crook with nunchaku on the PC cover art for "Street Fighter" (1987) - Capcom The arcade scene remained a popular draw worldwide throughout the 1980s, surviving the video game crash of ...

'80s games like The Legend of Zelda and Metroid might be classics, but that doesn't mean they've aged well.

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 ...

The racing game genre began in the 1970s, but by the ‘80s, it had expanded significantly, adding various sub-genres. These were the games that helped establish the genre’s potential, expanding what ...