Arcade

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.)