Introduction
How one man lost his video-game virginity and didn't come down with any nasty diseases

Anatomy 101
Parts is parts, even though games came in all shapes and sizes

COMPUTER SPACE (1971)
PONG (1972)

The Visionary
Q+A with Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese

TANK (1974)
GUN FIGHT (1975)
BREAKOUT (1976)
SPRINT 2 (1976)
SPACE WARS (1977)

Homing Devices
Honoring the Atari 2600 and the other systems that made us forever push aside our TCR racetracks and Mister Mouths

Fun House
Video games you played in your pajamas, preferably while eating Kaboom cereal

ATARI FOOTBALL (1978)
SPACE INVADERS (1978)
ASTEROIDS (1979)
GALAXIAN (1979)
BATTLEZONE (1980)
BERZERK (1980)

Honorable Mentions
A shout out to 16 of the arcade¹s near-misses, including The Adventures of Major Havoc, Gyruss, Mouse Trap and Xevious

CRAZY CLIMBER (1980)
DEFENDER (1980)

The Creator
Q+A with Eugene Jarvis, the sick genius behind Defender, Stargate and Robotron: 2084

MISSLE COMMAND (1980)
PAC-MAN (1980)

The Novelty Act
Q+A with Buckner + Garcia, the dynamic duo who sang about "Pac-Man Fever"

Hall of Shame
Unlike Pac-Man and Mario, these cutesy characters failed to catch on (starring Bentley Bear, Krooz¹r and Mappy)

RALLY-X (1980)
CENTIPEDE (1981)
DONKEY KONG (1981)

Monkey Shines
A fond look back at the arcade¹s many spotlight-hogging simians

FROGGER (1981)
GALAGA (1981)
GORF (1981)

Game Show
Revisiting our pals at the TV oddity Starcade, TBS Superstation¹s video-game extravaganza

Celluloid Nightmares
Divine playing Ms. Pac-Man? Corey Haim as Chuck E. Cheese? Must be something I ate!

MS. PAC-MAN (1981)

Fashion Victims
Ever the diva, our expert Ms. Pac-Man singles out the yums and yucks of video-game fashion

Einstein's Arcade Monsters?
Flipping through Invasion of the Space Invaders, author Martin Amis¹s improbable 1982 video-game strategy guide

QIX (1981)

Taxing Titles
Ten games that had amazingly stupid names, such as Bosconian and Zzyzzyxx

TEMPEST (1981)
BURGERTIME (1982)

Weird Video Games
From Death Race to Sinistar, the arcade never lacked for kooky concepts

DIG DUG (1982)
DONKEY KONG JUNIOR (1982)
JOUST (1982)

The Referee
Q+A with Walter Day, the chief referee at Iowa¹s all-important Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard

JUNGLE KING (1982)
MR. DO! (1982)
MOON PATROL (1982)
POLE POSITION (1982)

Race riots
Gentlemen, start your engines—for these awesome racing games

Q*BERT (1982)
ROBOTRON 2084 (1982)
TIME PILOT (1982)
TRON (1982)

The Tie-in Crowd
Games based on phenomena outside the arcade—yes, we're talking Journey

ZAXXON (1982)
DRAGON'S LAIR (1983)

Laser Daze
Not-so-classic laser-disc attempts that ate Dragon¹s Lair¹s sizable doo-doo

ELEVATOR ACTION (1982)
MARIO BROS. (1982)
SPY HUNTER (1983)
STAR WARS (1983)

The Collector
Q+A with Keith Feinstein, the curator of the travelling video-game exhibit Videotopia

TRACK AND FIELD (1983)
KARATE CHAMP (1984)
MARBLE MADNESS (1984)
PUNCH-OUT!! (1984)
GAUNTLET (1985)
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1985)

Bonus Round
One theory about the extinction of the arcade as we knew it that involves Mike Tyson, Tetris and copious amounts of Funyons

Arcade Lexicon
The language of video-games and the players that sucked at them