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 ...

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 ...

You thought video game adaptations from recent years were bad (e.g. Doom)? Now they're adapting an arcade game that originally appeared in 1982 into a live action feature film. Midway Games' Joust is ...

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 ...

PlayStation 3 owners can relive the glory days of the arcade cabinet when Joust launches on the PlayStation Network tomorrow afternoon as part of the Sony's latest wave of downloadable content for the ...

Midway is a company with a rich back catalog, rife with classic arcade games. Considering how hot the downloadable classics market seems to be these days, it’s no surprise that Midway, a company that ...

“If I start dying and I’m not talking, it’ll be because I’m dying,” Lonnie McDonald says while sitting at the Alley’s Joust arcade machine, as he fights enemy knights from atop a flying ostrich. “It’s ...

The Entertainment Software Rating Board has updated its site with another batch of verdicts on new games, and as has happened before, included in the update is a rating for a previously unannounced ...

Who is the greatest ostrich warrior in the land? That's the question that Midway posed to arcade goers 25 years ago when it unleashed Joust, a classic battle of the birds that took 1982 pizza parlors ...