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Origins and Opening Night The history of Galloping Ghost Arcade begins the way so many great gaming stories begin, with one person’s obsession carried further than anyone else thought possible. In the mid nineteen nineties, Doc Mack was not yet the steward of the largest arcade in the United States, he was just a young Chicago native trying to make a new fighting game. That project, Dark Presence, a digitized martial arts… Read more

A casual Mortal Kombat XL player, Legi0n, just pulled off a story that feels straight out of the arcade era: she showed up to a local and won the whole thing while holding her five-day-old newborn. Two posts on X captured the moment and lit up the FGC timeline: https://twitter.com/JuicyGameNight/status/1972096240017191239 The photo of one of her matches—shared by her husband—sparked a whirlwind of reactions. Some joked that the baby was calling the… Read more