News

April 07 2025

We have finished integrating TAFA with the rest of the web site, and opened up the ability for active members to upload new flyers to the database! Previously, all such uploads had to be processed manually, and well... that had not happened for quite some time.

February 12 2025

A new Video page has been created (Games & Machines -> Videos), which displays all the videos linked in the encyclopedia, with the ability to search and play any of them. See: https://www.arcade-museum.com/games-and-machines/video/game

January 19 2025

Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the Eaton (Altadena & Pasadena) and Palisades Fires. The Museum and Library are safe, and we are safe, though we have family members that have been temporarily dislocated from their homes. We know dozens of families that haven’t been lucky, and have dedicated the last 12 days to helping in every way we can.

November 29 2024

Today we released a major upgrade to our encyclopedia's Genres & Themes classification system. We changed and upgraded a our genre categories, and added additional fields for Driving Style, Fighting Style, Shooting Mode, Shooting Weapon, Shooting Vehicle, Aviation Vehicle, Driving Vehicle, Perspective, Setting Location, and Narrative Theme. To search for games by genre or theme, on the main site, under 'Games & Machines', select 'List by Genre', or jump directly go our Genres page.

November 11 2024

We have added the ability to browse through games by decade and year. On the main site, 'Games & Machines', select 'List by Years', or jump directly to the List by Years page.

June 10 2024

A week ago, a new 'People' section was added to the site, under menu items Games & Machines -> People to track people that worked on machines and the companies they worked for. Today we launched a number of improvements to upgrade the experience when viewing these pages.

March 28 2024

Members now have the ability to edit manufacturers and to add new ones. Plus there are now check boxes to note whether or not the manufacturer is still in business, and a field to note their home country. Additionally, an Advanced Search function for Manufacturers was added. Under the main menu, see Games & Machines -> Advanced Manufacturer Search.

January 16 2024

After two and a half years of solid work, a new version of the main web site has launched, replacing a barely working 20-25 year old code base with a site utilizing object oriented programming, mobile responsiveness, cleaned up data, and more. Additionally, it launches with new features including the Arcade Map that highlights arcade game locations globally, a ROM identifier (by CRC or by image upload), TTL & CMOS technical sections, and much more. It's a glorious day.

June 15 2023

After entering public beta for our members on May 23, 2023, today we fully launch our updated eLibrary PDF system. Search speeds have been increased almost 10000%, it's mobile friendly, and it replaces a ton of individual URLs we had for each title. It also allows us to include searching -only- for some restricted titles. Check it out at elibrary.arcade-museum.com

July 26 2020

After months of preparation, we've launched a whole new forum system today, and successfully imported all the old threads, posts, messages, users, and more -- over 5,000,000 database records! Check it out at forums.arcade-museum.com

May 24 2020

After previously launching the feature, today we expanded our PCB Circuit Board Identifier today. Use it it to help identify unknown game circuit boards.

June 01 2018

We just added auction results to our system. Now when you look up a game you can often see what kind of prices the machines have brought at auction. A special thanks to our inaugural auction partners: Morphy Auctions and Captains Auction Warehouse. Thank you both for your support!

January 29 2018

We are currently experimenting with a new way to display indexes to our game entries and game database search results. Check out the new description and photo status bars that indicate how complete individual game entries are!

January 15 2018

After adding 1,178 new game entries in the last 2 weeks of December, we added another 426 the first 2 weeks of January!

January 01 2018

Happy New Year! In the past 2 weeks, we've added 1,178 new game entries to our database and look forward to continuing our great work in 2018!