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Dec 27-31, 2024 Year End Appeal: The Museum of the Game and The International Arcade Museum Library both launched great initiatives in 2024, but each is spending more doing so than they bring in. We're asking for your direct support for the New Year, as we'd like to sustain our momentum in 2025! Learn More

We are asking you to reflect on how valuable you find our offerings, whether you believe in arcade, coin-op, and video-game preservation, and whether you would be able to give at least $5. If you have given in the past and we still provide you with value, please kindly donate again. If you have never contributed, please consider joining our efforts today. If everyone reading this gave just $5, we'd be well on our way to reaching our goals. All that matters is that you choose to support our preservation efforts. Every contribution helps, whether it's $2 (a common first donation), $5 (the most common donation amount), $12 (the average), $20, $50, $100, or more.

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News System Updates

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!

October 01 2013

Automatic Age Magazine has been brought to the digital age!

We are glad to announce the formal release (and exit from Beta) of over 25,000 pages of Automatic Age Magazine!

Over three years in the making, one of the most important arcade and amusement trade publications is now online. Covering coin-operated amusement from 1925 through the late 1940s, it's a great view into not only the evolution of gaming, but also American society through the roaring 20s, the depression, and World World II. Special thanks to special rights holders and other instrumental supporters including the University of Chicago Library, the Graham family, and Lightner Publishers.

September 30 2013

The International Arcade Museum continues to grow, though we haven't been great about promoting all our changes here! Generally we have been announcing them on our message forums In the last few years we merged with The Arcade Flyer Archive, added over 100,000 pages of content, upgraded VAPS and much more.

August 27 2010

Due to help from our resident 3D SketchUp Guru, gozer5454, we've launched support for 3D model files of game cabinets here! The feature launches with 280 models, growing each day. See the forum page about 3D Arcade SketchUp Models for more information.