Spooky Season at Time Rift Arcade: The Scariest Games on the Floor
October is here, and Time Rift Arcade in Bedford is stocked with zombies, Xenomorphs, killer clowns, and at least one very hungry ghost. You don’t need a haunted house this year. You need a $12 day pass and a steady trigger finger. Here’s your field guide to the creepiest cabinets and pinball machines at Time […]
Mike’s Current Top 5 Games at Time Rift Arcade
Everybody asks me the same question when I’m working the floor: “What’s your favorite game in here?” Fair warning, the answer changes. My tastes drift. Something I’m obsessed with in September might get replaced by whatever I fixed last week or whatever movie I just watched. The floor changes too. We rotate cabinets, we add […]
Montezuma’s Revenge on NES
Montezuma’s Revenge finally came to the NES, only 40 years late. Not a bootleg either. This is an official port licensed by original creator Robert Jaeger, and you can actually buy it. Want to play it on our NES? Just ask and we’ll pull the cart out of the back room.
A Customer Asked Us 5 Blunt Arcade Questions
Every so often we get an email that’s more interesting than the usual “what time do you open?” A customer recently sent us a list of questions about how an arcade actually runs behind the scenes. Broken cabinets, whether four player games really get four players, whether we track play counts, how we handle “grown-up” […]
Autobots, Roll Out: Transformers Premium Pinball Lands at Time Rift Arcade
Something big just rolled into Bedford. The Stern Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Premium is now on the floor at Time Rift Arcade, and it is every bit as loud, fast, and ridiculous as you want it to be. If you grew up with the toys, the cartoon, or the movies, this one is […]
SEGA Genesis Hidden Game!
Let’s take a look at Pitfall Mayan Adventure for the Sega Genesis. This game came out in 1994 on the Genesis and Super Nintendo. This is a well made game that appeared during the peak of these system’s popularity. It’s a great game and clearly has its roots in the original Pitfall by David Crane […]
Home Consoles Will Never Replace the Arcade
Somebody has been declaring the arcade dead since 1985. It was the NES that was going to kill us. Then the Genesis. Then the PlayStation, the Xbox, online multiplayer, smartphones, and now VR. Every few years, a confident guy on the internet writes the same obituary, and every few years he’s wrong. Arcades are still […]
Trivia Night Recap (Apr 8th, 2026) – Game of Thrones, Avatar, TMNT, 1980s Trivia
Trivia Night is back, and this one had something for every kind of nerd in the room. Four sections, eighty questions, and a whole lot of pop culture knowledge put to the test — covering Game of Thrones, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and a finale round of pure 1980s nostalgia. Some […]
Free-Play Arcades vs Pay-Per-Play Arcades
Most arcade cabinets, even dating back to the early ’80s, have a simple operator setting called “free play.” Flip that option on, and the machine stops waiting for coins or credits, and it just boots straight into the game and lets players start instantly. Originally, operators used this mode for testing or for special events, […]
