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Jun 17, 2026

Atari treads new ground with their first terrestrial vector arcade offering, Battlezone!

Was this the first game with true military applications? How did constant complaining lead to getting credited in one of the best arcade games made? What genius idea did Pastblaster’s wife have to witness the Gumball 3000 rally...


Jun 3, 2026

Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?

In 1977 arcades lit up with a new vibrant and high-resolution display that brought a dead video game publisher back to life. This was the vector monitor and it did more than just connect the dots, it dropped jaws and led to some of the most memorable arcade games ever created....


May 20, 2026

The Three’s Company apartment lease is up and it’s time to move out and move on in the only way we know how - with an Arcade Obscura on underrated or obscure three-player arcade games!

The first pick is so undefineable that Jarrod had to create a new word for the genre. The next pick gives us gore and bad...


Apr 29, 2026

Pastblaster finally gets his flowers as we cover one of his favorite games - Capcom’s excellent three-player beat ‘em up, Alien Vs. Predator.

Where does Alien Vs. Predator rank on the list of all-time arcade beat ‘em ups? Are you familiar with the Vela Incident of 1979? How did comics lead directly to this game...


Apr 15, 2026

We return to our normally scheduled broadcast to tear into one of the best 3-player and 80s games ever made - Rampage by Bally Midway.

Did Rampage lay out the landscape for future sandbox video games? Can you tell the difference between Ralph Wolf and Wile E. Coyote? What led to the long-standing partnership between...