Millions of quarters have been fed into arcade games over the years, and these ten cabinets consumed more than any others.

There have been nine home console generations since the first started in 1972, and each offered its own innovations.

A look back at the history of darts video games, and an investigation into why we still haven't had a truly great one.

When you think of the best gaming handheld devices, your mind might wander to the Game Boy or Nintendo DS you grew up with. But did you know that today’s handhelds let you play blockbuster PC games on ...

Discover 10 canceled game consoles you’ve probably never heard of, each with unique ideas that never made it to players.

On Christmas Day 1982, I unwrapped my very first video game console, an Atari 2600. Although it was released in 1977, it was new to me, and I'm pretty sure the reason my parents got it for me was ...

There’s also one of two known all-black versions of the prototype Atari 5200 known as the Atari Video System X. The device dates back to 1982, but Jobs appears to have purchased this prototype in 2001 ...

Original id Software developer Sandy Petersen talks about his experience porting Doom over to the Atari Jaguar's faux 64-bit ...

Over on [Ken Shirriff]’s blog is a tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips. WARNING: contains 8-bit ...

iam8bit has partnered with the Video Game History Foundation, Mega Cat Studios, and Retrotainment Games to bring programmer Chris Oberth’s long-long Nintendo Entertainment System game Xcavator back ...

Spacewar!, the first known digital video game ever made, is now available on the Analogue Pocket thanks to the new PDP-1 Core developed with openFPGA. FPGA, or field-programmable gate array, is a type ...