1943: The Battle of Midway
Imagine youâre twelve, pumped full of caffeine and adolescent bloodlust, and your local pizza joint is a foggy, sticky shrine to electrons and quarter-slaughter. There in the corner, huddled beneath […]
After Burner
Letâs talk about *After Burner*, the crown jewel of Segaâs heyday, a period in arcade history when every developer was apparently strung out on the collective fantasy of being Tom […]
Area 51
Area 51 (Atari Games, 1995) â A Neon Buckshot Fever Dream with a License to Conspire Let me paint you a picture: Itâs 1997. The worldâs waking up hungover on […]
Batman
Here we have the *Batman* arcade driving game, that shameless chrome-and-gloss fever dream officially titled **âBatmanâ**, unleashed unto a world of Red Bull-frazzled teens and middle-aged dads who always confuse […]
Big Buck HD Wild
I can still smell the ghost of wing sauce and stale Miller Lite on my shirt whenever I think of **Big Buck HD Wild**, the coin-op taxidermy simulator that became […]
Blaster
Letâs talk about **Blaster**, the fever dream child of a thousand space shooters, Midwayâs barnacle-encrusted answer to the age-old question: âWhat if *Star Wars* and Saturday morning cartoons did enough […]