Dec 17, 2025
Let’s go! Ah, the early 90s when the perfect date night meant hopping into a sit-down arcade game based on buddy cop movies, grabbing the steering wheel with one hand, gun with the other, and having you and your passenger blast away the bad guys in gory pixelated glory. Was there anything better than Namco’s unique...
Dec 3, 2025
The late ’80s were packed with pop-culture obsessions: arcades, action movies, neon aesthetics, and of course, a nationwide fascination with ninjas. Sleek, masked warriors showed up everywhere from toys to TV, shaping the era’s love of fast, flashy combat. But no arcade game captured the ninja craze as perfectly as...
Nov 19, 2025
The music
is fading and the lights are coming up on our Rhythm miniseries.
Time for the final encore as each host picks one more game for this
rhythm Arcade Obscura.
The first pick is a helluva ride that features a very familiar
arcade character. The next pick takes us to heaven with a
development contract made in...
Nov 5, 2025
It’s our
penultimate episode of the Rhythm miniseries (and hey, we also hit
episode 150)! We return to BEMANI to explore their sub-sub-culture
game that allows you to ruin good music just like real DJs, Sound
Voltex (or SDVX as the cooler kids say).
What is it about the Bop It nature of this game that
causes...
Oct 8, 2025
Sega is
no stranger to the arcade rhythm games but they really hit their
stride with their Performai series of games. So scan your Aime
card, select your song, and let’s play the game that literally
translates to “pre-teen kids who think they’re cooler than they are
playing a rhythm game” - Chunithm.
What is it...