Before there were e-sports — heck, before the original Nintendo even came to America — there was Starcade. The 1982-84 game show, which pitted video-game nerds against each other in vintage arcade games like Pac-Man, Centipede and Donkey Kong, is back this week, with gaming site Twitch streaming a six-day Starcademarathon that runs through this […]
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Twitch will stream the ’80s arcade gaming show ‘Starcade’
Starcade, the ’80s TV show that had participants compete in arcade video games, will be back by the end of August. No, not as a reboot, which is in the works, but as a Twitch marathon. The video gaming platform has teamed up with Shout! Factory, the studio that acquired the rights to create the […]