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Galaxian was designed by Kazunori Sawano, who had previously worked on many of Namco's electro-mechanical shooting gallery arcade games, notably Shoot Away (1977). [9] Early in the game's development, Taito had released Space Invaders in Japan, which swept the country by storm and helped turn the video game industry into a highly-profitable business.
The Intellivision. This is a list of cartridges and cassettes for the Intellivision game system. Some cartridges were branded as both Mattel Electronics and Sears Tele-Games, and later republished by INTV Corp. as Intellivision Inc. Between 1979 and 1989, a total of 132 titles were released:
Baseball (Intellivision) by Mattel was the console's best selling title with over one million copies sold. [66] Demon Attack (Atari 2600) by Imagic was released in 1983. It won the 1983 Arcade Award for "Best Videogame of the Year". [107] It was the company's best selling game and is considered a classic of the Atari 2600. [108] [109] [110]
Galaxian is one of the most successful arcade games of its time, selling over 50,000 arcade cabinets in North America alone. Galaxian and its sequel Galaga are cited as some of the most influential games of the genre, the latter being called one of the greatest video games ever made by many publications.
Intellivision was the first game console to provide real-time human voices in the middle of gameplay, courtesy of the Intellivoice module. [103] The first game controller with a directional thumb pad. [104] The Intellivision was also the first game console or home computer to offer a musical synthesizer keyboard.
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Defender is a 1981 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Williams Electronics for arcades.The game is set on either an unnamed planet or city (depending on platform) where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts.
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