Arcade
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A video arcade machine at the computer games fair gamescom in Cologne (Germany 2013): The game Crystal Castles from Atari (1983).
The Arcade genre originally referred to coin operated video games. These games were almost always had rules that were easy to understand or intuit and had a fast pace. The term quickly widened to refer to ports of such games to home consoles and computers. Soon some platform games with simple rules and a fast style of play were called Arcade style games.
Famous Arcade Games (Selection)[edit | edit source]
Centipede from Atari (1980). Once of a lot of classic arcade games of the "golden age of arcade video games".
- 1971: Computer Space (The first video arcade machine, without CPU, RAM and ROM.)
- 1972: Pong (many ports and different variants with many titles. First sucuessful arcade game from Atari.)
- 1974: Tank, Gran Trak 10 (first video arcade machine with ROM)
- 1975: Gun Fight (first video arcade machine with CPU)
- 1976: Breakout (many ports and different variants with many titles.)
- 1977: Circus, Space Wars (first arcade game with vector graphics)
- 1978: Space Invaders
- 1979: Asteroids (programmed for C64 in 1987), Galaxian (first coloured graphics arcade game), Lunar Lander
- 1980: Centipede, Defender (first scroller), Pac Man (many ports and different variants with many titles.), Phoenix (C64 port name Eagle Empire from Alligata Software), Berzerk (with human voice output)
- 1981: Donkey Kong (first jump'n run game), Frogger, Galaga, Lady Bug, Mario Bros, Qix, Scramble, Space Panic (first platformer)
- 1982: Burger Time, Dig Dug, Moon Patrol, Pengo, Pole Position, Pooyan, Q*bert, Robotron: 2084, Time Pilot, Tron
- 1983: Elevator Action, Star Wars, Tapper
- 1984: 1942, Bomb Jack, Star Force
- 1985: Bank Panic, Buggy Boy, Choplifter, Ghosts'n Goblins
- 1986: Arkanoid, Bubble Bobble, Out Run, Wonder Boy
- 1987: Wonder Boy in Monster Land, Street Fighter
- 1988: Tetris, Ghouls 'n Ghosts
- 1989: Final Fight
- 1991: Street Fighter II
- 2012: Fix-it Felix Jr. (an arcade game for Disney's CGI film Wreck-It Ralph that is back-dated in 1982.)
Other C64 arcade ports see under Arcade.
A selection of animations of C64 arcade ports (with year of the C64 port) of the 1980s:
Defender (1983).
Pac Man (1983).
Donkey Kong (1983).
Burger Time (1984).
"1942" (1986).
Arkanoid (1987).
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