Well with us covering Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, we really have to conclude the original Star Wars trilogy by Atari with Return of the Jedi. Many people are surprised to know that despite being the third movie, that Return of the Jedi in fact was released before the Empire Strikes Back. This […]

My son keeps on asking me when the Avengers Blu-Ray is out (any day now son!)…so it made me think to finally getting around to writing about this old game. With the surprising fact that there was no official video game released to coincide with the release of movie (there is one coming out eventually). […]

The original Star Wars arcade machine given to us by Atari in the early 80’s is no doubt one of the all time arcade classics, as well as being a great collectors item. Well one game that trumps it in the collectors market is Empire Strikes Back. The Empire Strikes Back, while it is the […]

When it comes to movies there are some that really were just designed to be turned into a video game. Disney’s 1982 sci-fi classic Tron is certainly one of those movies, and today we are going to look at the second arcade game based on this movie Discs of Tron made by Midway. Specifically we […]

In our latest installment of Rare Game Room Gems, we look at the Atari classic I, Robot. When you think of I, Robot, I would take a guess that what probably pops into your mind are images of the Will Smith movie from 2004, or perhaps the series of novels that the movie was loosely […]

Looking like something Leonardo Da Vinci sketched in his notebook, Prop Cycle by Namco is certainly one of the strangest arcade games ever made. Released over ten years before the Nintendo Wii stormed through game rooms, getting people to get all sweaty while playing video games — Prop Cycle was quite a trailblazer. I played […]

Death Race was released by Exidy in 1976. It was inspired by the Roger Corman movie Death Race 2000 that came out a year earlier. The game was a one or two player game and featured an on-screen car (two cars if two players played) with a steering wheel and an acceleration pedal. You play […]

You may remember that the The GameRoom Blog talked with Sean Newton last year about his excellent book Bits, Sticks, and Buttons. Well Sean has a new book coming out soon and wanted to give us the exclusive scoop on it. So here goes… Sean thanks for talking with me today. I take it the […]

Some of you may just have an Xbox hooked to a big TV in your game room. But for those of us who like to fill our gamerooms with old coin-op equipment — we cannot just logon to Amazon to get our latest fix. We have to be on the prowl and compete against other […]