A new book by ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Jamie Lendino shows how coin-op arcade machines set the standards all console and computer games aspired to for the first 25 years of the video game industry.

It took three tries, but it is now legal to have coin-operated arcade machines in businesses in Marshfield, Massachusetts. So if you're in the tiny coastal town (population: less than 5,000) and you ...

As someone who dropped a lot of quarters into coin-op arcade games back in the 80s, I have mad love for Arcade1Up's lineup of retro consoles. Some of them are countertop machines; others, freestanding ...

SNK’s NeoGeo was always a strange beast. It was originally launched as a coin-op arcade machine that let operators load up to six different cartridge-based games. But in 1991 a home version arrived, ...

On the rare occasions Marshfield receives national news attention, storms are usually battering the town's shores and flooding coastal streets. For a brief time in the early 1980s, however, the ...