From Tempest to Captain Blood, unearth these classic 1980s games from the 8-bit era that deserve to make a comeback.

The coin slot is mostly gone from everyday life, yet the games it fed have refused to disappear. Many people consider the ...

The 1980s were a weird spot for video games. The industry had a major crash in 1983 and spent the next several years trying to get back to its previous highs. Importantly, that was spearheaded by the ...

A red ghost emerges from a cell in Pac-Man - Bandai Namco Entertainment The 1980s followed the lead of the arcade games from the '70s that started everything, expanding the video game industry ...

An NES game has been stealth-released, bringing anyone who picks it up on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, PS5, and Xbox Series X back to the 1980s. The game in question debuted all the way ...

Remember when toys were strictly for Children, the electronic age has changed all of that and now just as many grown ups get games for Christmas as kids electronic games come in all shapes sizes and ...

I grew up with 1980s home-computer gaming: Atari, Commodore, Spectrum, Amstrad. In the UK, we had, comparatively speaking, no money (yuppies aside), and, rather than being lucky enough to follow our ...

Four decades after I last played it, Chuckie Egg is back, and I am controlling bright-yellow, big-hatted protagonist Hen-House Harry as he collects eggs, seed and avoids angry birds. Better still, I ...

Step into the chaos of Kowloon Walled City in 1980s Hong Kong, where the syndicate rules from the shadows. You are Rookie, the newest member of an elite police commando unit sent into Kowloon. Your ...

This Atari may really be Infogrames, but they seem to want to be the name for classic video games that aren’t Nintendo’s. Atari seems to have gone hoard mode when it comes to video games IP, as they ...

The lesson of MythForce, if Beamdog’s zany roguelite has one, is that parody is easy; homage is hard. It’s simple enough to snicker at the 12-frames-per-second animation of the 1980s, and the cynical ...