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The 1980s was the second decade in the industry's history. It was a decade of highs and lows for video games. The decade began amidst a boom in the arcade video game business with the golden age of arcade video games, the Atari 2600 's dominance of the home console market during the second generation of video game consoles, and the rising ...
1980 saw the release of a number of games with influential concepts, including Pac-Man, Battlezone, Crazy Climber, Mystery House, Missile Command, Phoenix, Rally-X, Space Panic, Stratovox, Zork, Adventure, and Olympic Decathlon. The year's highest-grossing video game was Namco 's arcade game Pac-Man, while the best-selling home system was ...
The golden age of arcade video games was the period of rapid growth, technological development, and cultural influence of arcade video games from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. The release of Space Invaders in 1978 led to a wave of shoot-'em-up games such as Galaxian and the vector graphics -based Asteroids in 1979, made possible by new ...
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1972 – The Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console, is released, [3] along with the arcade machine Pong. [2] 1973 – Pong and similar titles dominate the arcade sector, Gotcha, Space Race and Maze War are also released. 1974 – Tank is released, as well as the early first first-person shooter Spasim.
Written by a group of students to out-do Oubliette, it was to become the most successful PLATO game ever--it accounted for 6% of all the hours spent on the system between September 1978 and May 1985. ^ "Beneath Apple Manor for Apple II (1978) - MobyGames". MobyGames. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
Defender is a horizontally scrolling shooter developed by Williams Electronics in 1980 and released as an arcade video game in 1981. 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. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball ...
Zombi (1986 video game) Categories: Computer-related introductions in the 1980s. 1980s in video gaming. 20th-century video games. Games and sports introduced in the 1980s. 1980s software. 1980s in technology. Video games by decade.