There were two golden ages of arcade gaming: the late 70s to early 80s, and the 90s. Even though I fall into the late 90s category, I remember the last few years of the arcade heyday—shelling out hundreds of credits for Mortal Kombat and Time Crisis. The Coin Game invites players back to those simpler times of being a teenager in those arcade gaming eras, before the console wars began.
This meant using babysitting and local lawn cutting service money to play games at the local shopping mall arcade, or some kind of arcade chain—like a Chuck E. Cheese, Woody Woodchuck’s, or a Wizard’s Castle. It also involved spending some of that money to buy a ton of junk food and sodas.
The Coin Game was made by a solo developer—devotid—who put the game in Early Access on Steam back on February 22, 2019. On March 19, 2026, the game is finally leaving Early Access and hitting 1.0. The Coin Game involves a collection of ticket redemption arcades with realistic physics, a... Read more