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Journey is an arcade video game released by Bally Midway in 1983. Rock band Journey had enjoyed major success in the early 1980s, and Bally/Midway decided to ride this wave of popularity by creating an arcade game based on the group. Its release was intended to coincide with a US tour by the band.
The original arcade game was a global commercial success, becoming the top-performing arcade game of 1984 in the United States. It produced an arcade sequel known as Super Punch-Out!!, a spinoff of the series titled Arm Wrestling, a highly popular version for the NES originally known as Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!, and Super Punch-Out!! for the SNES.
Gauntlet is a 1985 fantasy-themed hack-and-slash arcade video game developed and released by Atari Games. [3] It is one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games. [8] [9] The core design of Gauntlet comes from 1983 game Dandy for the Atari 8-bit computers, which resulted in a threat of legal action. [10]
“Nostalgia plays a significant role, especially because many people who grew up in the '70s and '80s have romantic memories of spending hours playing games like Mario Bros, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong ...
The Turbo-charged World of Japan's Game Centers, by Brian Ashcraft; The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games, by Bill Kurtz; The First Quarter: A 25 Year History of Video Games, by Steven L. Kent; Gamester's Guide to Arcade Video Games, by Paul Kordestani; Game Over, by David Sheff; Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, edited ...
Up until the late 1990s, arcade video games were the largest [1] and most technologically advanced [2] [3] sector of the video game industry. The first arcade game, Computer Space, was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, the founders of Atari, Inc., and released in 1971; the company followed on its success the next year with Pong.