A look at the bar layout in Tapper, with the bartender at the bottom of the screen - Midway Games For years, arcades were the lifeblood of the gaming industry. This was before the proliferation of ...

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 ...

Back in the 80s and 90s, TOAPLAN was one of the top arcade shmup developers in Japan, and these two game collections certainly do justice to that. In addition to local co-op play on some of these ...

Though the '70s are the decade to which arcade games and the video game industry at large can trace their roots, not every game is fondly remembered. More accurately, not every arcade title from the ...

The '90s featured the last major push of arcade games as home consoles and PCs grew more technically comparable and widely available. As such, there were some arcade games released throughout the ...

Apple Arcade’s May lineup introduces four new titles today on the subscription gaming platform. Apple Arcade games have no ...

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 ...

Maddie is a Contributor at DualShockers covering JRPGs, survival horror, arcade games, retro gaming, shooters, and features. She has been writing about games professionally since 2011, with more than ...

There’s something special about a good arcade racer. The developers toss aside the drive for realism and let players enjoy increased speed, thrills, and mayhem. While games like Forza Horizon 5 are ...

Each month, Apple Arcade adds new games to its existing lineup of 200+ games. For April 2026, three new games are coming to the service (you can subscribe here), all of which are worth a look. There’s ...