The run-and-gun genre rose to dominance in the 1980s and 1990s, largely due to the success of Contra. Originally an arcade ...

which paved the way for arcade video games in the early 1970s. The arcades we recognize today experienced their golden age in the late 1970s and early 1980s. By 1981, there were about 24,000 full ...

Pac-Man, Centipede and Galaga are just a few of the classic games inside Wheeling’s newly opened Headless Horseman Arcade ... from the arcades of the 1980s and ’90s. Instead of gobbling ...