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The most successful arcade game companies of this era included Taito (which ushered in the golden age with the shooter game Space Invaders [4] and produced other successful arcade action games such as Gun Fight and Jungle King), Namco (the Japanese company that created Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position and Dig Dug) and Atari (the company that ...
Space Wars is a shooter game released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1977. It is based on the PDP-1 game Spacewar! (1962) but instead uses vector graphics for the visuals. The hardware developed for Space Wars became the platform for most of the vector-based arcade games from Cinematronics.
Space Invaders, Space Invaders Part II and Return of the Invaders are included in Taito Legends, a compilation of Taito's classic arcade games released in 2005 on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. [123] [124] Super Space Invaders '91, Space Invaders DX, and Space Invaders ' 95 were included in Taito Legends 2, a sequel compilation released in ...
1978 Taito releases Space Invaders, the first blockbuster arcade video game, [11] responsible for starting the golden age of video arcade games.It also sets the template for the shoot 'em up genre, [12] and influences nearly every shooter game released since then.
An Italian arcade cabinet of Phoenix.The game was distributed in Japan and Europe before its release to American arcades. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several game companies made outer-space themed shooter games, which involved players destroying alien space fleets.
The title is a compilation of Taito's classic arcade games. It features the original Space Invaders with color graphics, Super Space Invaders ' 91, and Space Invaders DX. [92] An earlier version was planned for the Nokia N-Gage in 2003; Super Space Invaders was one of the three games planned to be included. The title was canceled. [93] [94]