We all love a list, so every Tuesday we’re posting one, on a variety of retro-themed topics! Feel free to share your own favourites down below — and let us know what other lists you’d like to see on future Tuesdays! Ninjas! Who doesn’t love a ninja? Everyone did back in the ’80s and ’90s, [...]
Legendary pinball designer Steve Ritchie has left Stern Pinball and joined Jersey Jack Pinball. Steve Ritchie Steve had his first day at Jersey Jack Pinball today, where he was greeted by JJP founder Jack Guarnieri and the Head of Game Design, Steve’s former fellow designer at Williams and Stern, Pat Lawlor. Jack, Steve and Pat [...]
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Steve Ritchie holding Santiago Ciuffo’s PINBALL book Famed veteran pinball designer Steve Ritchie has left Stern Pinball and started working for competitor Jersey Jack Pinball (JJP) today. JJP founder Jack Guarnieri made the announcement following a week of rumors of Steve’s possible jump. Ritchie, currently aged 71, has a long history of designing pinball [...]
Welcome to Newsbytes, a weekend/bi-weekend curation of news items from around the arcade world. I tried to find something from pinball too, but it seems fairly quiet there right now. I finally had the chance to sit down and interview Eugene Jarvis about the Cruis’n series this week; I’m just hoping to get some items [...]
Welcome back to Retrounite! If you’ve checked in on us over the last few days, you may have noticed that we were having some… difficulties. Specifically, we were the victim of a random malware attack which rendered the homepage unusable, plastering it with spam; the rest of the site seemed to be okay, but unfortunately [...]
Back in December of 2020, CAVE rejoined the coin-op arcade scene with the release of their popular title DoDonPachi True Death EXA Label. Despite the pandemic pressures in Japan suppressing a lot of potential sales, the game went on to become a dominating seller for the exA, also giving locations that grabbed one a boost. [...]
In another of his occasional guest features for Arcade Heroes – industry specialist Kevin Williams, marks the celebration of the Tokyo Olympics 2020, and charts the influences that the video amusement industry has taken from the Global sporting event. This comes full circle as the Opening Ceremonies of the 2020 games showcased video game music [...]
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Sega’s racing games from the late ’80s and early ’90s occupy a special place in many retro gamers’ hearts — with good reason. Titles like Power Drift, Super Hang On, OutRun, Virtua Racing and Daytona USA all pushed the racing game genre in a variety of different ways — and were some of the most [...]