Spread the loveThe 1980s was a golden era for video games, seeing the rise of iconic franchises and groundbreaking titles.

By the mid-80s, one reporter said the “boom years for video games were over.” Arcades across the country closed their doors ...

Infinite Onslaught' brings the action of the 80's light gun games such as 'Operation Wolf' to a modern take with technology ...

If you’re a child of the ’80s or ’90s, you probably remember the feeling of wonder you got the first time you played a game ...

These measures rarely posed much of a challenge to the dedicated efforts of crackers, but the copy protection in the classic 80s game Dungeon Master for the Atari ST and Amiga was next-level.

Our criteria is which games of the 1980s do we owe the greatest debt to because they innovated so much at the time, and because they represent all that is best about original game design.