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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 ...
List of Atari, Inc. games (1972–1984) Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for ...
Arcade Games, by Jon Blake. Arcade Mania!: 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.
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 ...
Below is a list of arcade video games produced by Atari. These games were produced by Atari, Inc. from 1972 to 1984 starting with Pong, and Atari Games from 1984 to 1999. Atari no longer manufacturers arcade games. In fact, the entity that now owns the brand name, (French company, Infogrames), never has. For a full list of games developed or ...
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.