Hardcore Joust fans, your day of vindication has arrived. Newly formed film production company CP Productions plans to bring John Newcomer's classic arcade title, which revolves around a flying ...

Give Joust a go on Xbox One. The Xbox One’s backwards compatibility library adds another title today. Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb announced on Twitter that the Xbox 360 version of the 1982 ...

This week on Shack's Arcade Corner, we take a look at Joust. This classic arcade game was made by Williams Electronics and was released in 1982 riding the momentum from the massively successful ...

Joust is a bona fide arcade classic, and this Xbox Live Arcade edition is a fine tribute to the 1982 original. 1982 was a banner year for arcades. One of the games that helped make the year so special ...

Update, March 22: Lonnie McDonald succeeded in his goal of crossing 9,999,999 on his 150th Joust machine. You can see a timelapse of the entire thing below. {"type ...

Lou Contaldi specializes in both reviews and the business behind gaming. He began writing about tech and video games while getting his Juris Doctor at Hofstra University School of Law. He is maybe the ...

Midway's got a ton of arcade games under its belt, and it's a good thing the company's not letting them rot away -- some of these games are still great fun to play. Case in point, the first classic ...

Midway Games may have gone bankrupt in 2009, but its vintage titles are aren’t similarly exhausted — Warner Bros. has announced that a Midway Arcade app that includes ten memorable classics is now ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Steve Sanders, one of the first competitive professional gamers during the 1980s arcade boom, now holds a world record in his best game: Joust. He and ...

When Lonnie McDonald turned 50, he looked back at memories of his younger years, recalling activities he enjoyed in his youth. In college, he recalled, he played pool, pinball — and Joust. “This ...

I have a bit of a thing about ostriches at the moment. I am hooked. I've been watching ostrich videos. I've been Googling ostrich facts. Do you know that an ostrich's brain is smaller than one of its ...

A big appeal of Ernest Cline’s novel Ready Player One was its reverence toward the pop culture of the 1980s, from movies to video games. As the big-screen Steven Spielberg adaptation inches closer to ...