I ran away from home when I was 8 years old. I can’t for the life of me remember why. Most likely I was just fed up with people older, smarter, and wealthier than me telling me what to do. But here’s ...

When the city's beloved Chinatown Fair arcade shuttered in February 2011, beset by rising rents and a shifting gaming industry, it disbanded a tightly-knit group of people who found both solace and ...

Pac-Man and Donkey Kong are coming to a laptop near you. Nearly 1,000 coin-op classics from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s are now available online to a new generation of gamers thanks to the Internet ...

From the late 1960s, when the Sega Corporation first introduced “electro-mechanical” gaming to the world in the form of the coin-operated amusement, “Periscope,” to the introduction of Pac-Man in 1980 ...

* Ottumwa, Iowa, is the self-described “Video Game Captial of the World,” and is the home of the International Video Game Hall of Fame.* In 1982, the arcade industry was worth an estimated $20.8 ...

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