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NBA JAM Year Of Release: 1993 Studio: Midway Description One of the biggest arcade hits of the 1990’s all over the world was the over the top 2 on 2 basketball arcade game, NBA JAM. The idea of NBA JAM was slightly based on Midway’s other popular basketball game Arch Rivals. Arch Rivals tried to keep the fun of basketball by keeping the excitement of the sport, but by stripping away the rules. NBA JAM would follow on from this trend and also make use of digitized character much like Midway’s other huge hit Mortal Kombat. Midway had to pay...

Mappy Year Of Release: 1983 Studio: Namco Description Mappy was developed by Namco and published by them in Japan, but in the West it would be Midway who would publish the game. Released in 1983 this was one of the earliest platform style games and one of the most popular games of its day especially in Japan. The hardware that ran the game was actually pretty advanced for the time and required Namco to make a modified version of the Namco’s Super Pac-Man Board to allow for the smooth horizontal scrolling in the game. The player controls Mappy who is...

Knowing About Joysticks Rather than talking about a specific arcade game, today we are going to look at what we use to play the games and by that we mean joysticks. We know about a thing or two about joysticks here at DIY Arcade so let’s take a little look back at some of the popular joystick designs that have been used in arcades over the years. 2 Way, 4 Way Or 8 Way Joystick In the early days of arcade gaming most machines would one of these 2,3 or 4 way joysticks as standard. Although there actually would be...

Pushing Your Buttons While these days in the home our console controllers have just a ton of buttons on them. Back when arcades were the king and the main way people experienced video games the button layout of arcades was actually very simple. As the years progressed arcade games would get more and more complex and would require more buttons in order to make the games work properly. These days when you are building a home arcade machine. It is highly likely that you will go for that six button, Street Fighter II style layout of arcade buttons. As this...

Take Your Home Arcade To The next Level With A Track Ball While when making your dream home arcade machine a track ball may be low on your list of priorities. At the end of the day adding a track ball to your arcade is actually pretty easy to do and it will not break the bank either. The track ball these days is some people think is just something of a forgotten thing. But while the track ball is seen as something that was just in the 80’s, arcade games that made use of a track ball have been...