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Book Review: Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat And Other Coin-op Classics Invaded The Living Room by David Craddock

By Retro Refurbs|2019-09-17T03:09:00+01:00September 17th, 2019|Arcade Game News|Comments Off on Book Review: Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat And Other Coin-op Classics Invaded The Living Room by David Craddock

It has been a while since we did a book review on the site, as books about the subject of arcades are not exactly plentiful. That changed slightly this weekend after David L. Craddock released his new book Arcade Perfect to the world. As a disclaimer, I was given the chance to read the final [...]

Fans Celebrate 59 Years Of Sega

By Retro Refurbs|2019-06-03T21:30:07+01:00June 3rd, 2019|Arcade Game News|Comments Off

Today marks 59 years since the gaming company first known as Service Games – later SEGA – opened their doors and began providing gaming entertainment to the world. To mark the event, the official Sega Japan and many of Sega’s arcade location Twitter accounts have been busy celebrating. That has either been marked with chili [...]