Category: Arcade
Before the home consoles took over, arcade machines reigned supreme. Millions of grubby hands slotted millions more quarters, fifty pence pieces, and various other currency into their favourite cabinets, itching to beat a high score or experience a new arcade game for the first time.
Distant Arcade wouldn’t have its name without them and this category page covers everything from arcade cabinets—old and new—to a variety of arcade games, as well as the companies that made them including Atari.
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
Atari is bringing back Akka Arrh
DualShocker's 10 best arcade games that never made it onto consoles
Polybius continues to haunt us because of its enduring lore. The arcade cabinets on Cursed Arcade Cabinets, a new Tumblr I found today, aren’t on that level but they live up to their association. The few posts are mostly bootlegs or just straight up hackjobs, such as this one which is a CRT enclosed in a polystyrene[?] cabinet, which is also taped together? And what the hell is Georgia Skill?