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XBox 360 arcade platform
All new way in the way people play, using a network pay-for-play amusement structure to PC gaming.
Get Outta My Face is a new arcade game designed by Will Brierly. Featuring 50 levels of exciting gameplay, a beautiful musical score, challenging AI, and a compelling/silly storyline, this game not...
Retro game system for home player - building on the rich history of cabinet design, harking back to Computer Space.
Aliens: Extermination marks the return of the popular Aliens franchise to arcades. Previous Aliens titles include Alien 3: The Gun and Alien Vs. Predator.
First card collecting RPG using living surface object recognition table
Sega releases AfterBurner Climax to arcades, bringing back one of their old franchises back to arcades. This was among the first titles to use Sega's Lindbergh hardware.
The first immersive display arcade driving simulator.
The first exercise arcade machine.
The first ArcadePC release, supported by Intel
The successful train simulator.
The first successful connected US amusement machine, with a tournament system (ITNet) that found great success with million Dollar tournaments.
Last game developed by Gremlin / Acclaim to enter the amusement scene
The first gun game with the 'duck' pedal.
Use of the Mirage Arcade Board - based on the Amiga, the game was the worst of those on the Amiga - the hype of the concept failed to deliver.
The first arcade game with a hard disk; up to that point the game with the highest quality graphics pre-rendered by a rendering program, featuring to this day the highest quality use of the movie b...
The first interactive enclosed amusement simulator.
First Virtual Reality arcade machine. Editor - Another machine powered initially by the Amiga graphics platform.
The first helicopter simulator arcade machine.
S.T.U.N. Runner (Spread Tunnel Underground Network Runner) is a fast-paced, racing/shooter arcade game released by Atari Games in 1989. The player pilots a futuristic "speed bike" at speeds of up t...
Like the home 'Mega Drive' in an arcade cabinet, an eight slot machine. Like the Nintendo PlayChoice-10 system, it uses two monitors, one above the other.
Many kids hadn't heard of "Ironman" Ivan Stewart before 1985, but within a matter of months, the racing legend was one of the most famous faces in the video game community. Ironman Ivan Stewart's S...
Before Jesse "The Body" Ventura, the baddest elected official in the land was Mayor Mike Haggar, a former street fighter and one of the three stars of Capcom's Final Fight. Inspired by the two-play...
The Start of the successful golf series
The first game with fully digitized graphics.
The use of the Amiga hardware in a arcade machine running Amiga consumer games such as Xenox, Rockford, etc.
The game offered a fresh take on the side scroller, mixing platform action with a fun game aspect. Editor - The first of a successful line of games on the JAMMA based CPS platform.
Inspired by the worldwide success of Double Dragon a year earlier, Data East introduced its own side-scrolling, street-brawling, ninja-fighting game in 1988, Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja. Worried par...
The first 'Roto-scope' graphic arcade game - also called the first game with gore, though the author feels 'Slaughter House' has that honor.
The first game to make use of sprite scaling and massive sprite rotation.
Editor - The game was developed and release by Tab, and sold by Fabtek in the US. Third person (behind player). Use a trackball to control a soldier and his aiming crosshair, and conduct attacks o...
The use of console (NES) cartridges in a coin-operated machine.
The first cockpit simulator arcade machine
The first four-machine, eight-player networked racing game. The system establishing the concept as a popular technology.
Unique motion system (rotation)
The first motion activated arcade game. Player turns the screen to point to the virtual enemy.
The first "simulation" game (seemingly meaning, the first to use a physical construct to simulate an activity, in this case riding a "motorcycle").
Gauntlet was a huge success in arcades and was certainly a highlight for an industry just recovering from the crash . Gauntlet brought 4 player dungeon crawling into the limelight and has many memo...
Major Havoc was the the last vector game released in arcades. It also was one of Atari's last arcade games before the company was split in two, the console/computer division going one direction and...
The first side scrolling platform game.
One of the first 16-bit processor arcade games with detail graphics.
The first arcade game based upon a home console release was also Cinematronics final game before filing for bankruptcy due to the video game crash. The game was released on the Vectrex game console...
I, Robot was the first game to use true 3D polygons and the first game to use the unique Hall Effect joystick. The hardware was very complicated and had a high failure rate; only 1000 units were ma...
The first laser-disk game, developed by Sega and launched in the US by Midway.
Based on the movie of the same name. Tron was the first game to have a championship tournament with over a million entries; to promote the game, Bally/Midway and Aladdin's Castle sponsored a seven-...
Developed by Irem and distributed by Williams in the US, is the first game to feature parallax scrolling. That is, to have two parts of the background (In this case, the green and aqua mountains) a...
The first use of scaling sprite 3D effects.
The first 3D arcade game, first first-person-perspectif game. The title an acronym for "Submarine-Rocket"
Frogger was quite popular among men and women as they fell in love with the little green frog in his quest to cross the road (and the river). It was originally developed by Konami by ended up being...
Breakthrough success for Nintendo in the US, spearheading the creation of Nintendo of America, which will later ressurect the home gaming industry with the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainmen...
The first game to use multi-colored vector display.
The first "3-D environmental landscape game" - the first game with a three-dimensional world a player can move through at will with a first-person perspective. Battlezone is also famous for the int...
Tthe first game to feature a "game world" larger than the screen, in which important and urgent things were happening outside of the player's view; and so provided a radar like "Scanner" to show th...
The first game to scroll in 4 directions. Like Defender, the game world is larger than the screen, and thus a radar device is provided so the player can see the locations of game elements outside o...
The first game to be as popular with women as it is with men. This of course makes the game hugely profitable, since at this time arcade games are hugely popular. The game and its first sequel, Ms....
Berzerk puts the player into a futuristic maze where touching the walls means death and each room is filled deadly robots that fire at you. In addition to this, the player is chased by a happy face...
The first first-person flying game.
The first standardized arcade platform.
First game in true RGB color.
Warrior was the first one-on-one fighting game. It featured two knights equipped with a sword in a psychedelic arena where the object was to bash the other player until they died or to push them in...
The vector based arcade game, using the popular 'thrust' controller - many cabinets cannibalized for Asteroid game updates. As with Pong and Tennis, the game was based on the 1973 Lunar Lander (al...
the first game in a "cockpit" cabinet, (though not the first "sit-down" game; several driving games had sit-down cabinets in the mid-70s) and the first to allow high-scoring players to enter their ...
Football was a popular game that was only overshadowed by Taito's Space Invaders which came out right after this did. It used giant trackball controllers (the first arcade game to do so) and mimick...
The "vertical space shooter" craze that later informs such games as Galaga and others. It was the first video game to inspire real mania and "addiction" - young gamers commited crimes to get enough...
Space War was the first arcade game to use a vector monitor. It was actually one of the best selling arcade titles of the time.
The first 1st-person driving game, is released by Atari. This appears to have been the earliest example of any first-person game, that is, the screen does not show a player-character, but rather sh...
Death Race was the first video game to cause a major controversy about violence in video games as the player controlled a car whose purpose was to drive over gremlins. Some believe that it helped t...
First arcade fighting game.
Two-player air combat game
A trivia question and answer game from Ramtek, is the first trivia game in arcades. The 2000 trivia questions were stored on a 8-track tape cartridge.
The first videogame with a microprocessor - and the first Japanese game licenced in America, followed by games like Space Invaders and Pac-Man. It is the first game ever to have two on-screen human...
TANK! was developed by Kee Games - which really was Atari but was created as a second company to help Atari get around exclusivity agreements that distributors used at the time. In Tank you had an ...
This is the game that inspired Duck Hunt as it featured shooting ducks in a field and a dog that would get them when they fell. It also is perhaps the first arcade game to use a light-gun.
First racing game with steering wheel and gearshift .
The first "cocktail table" videogame and the first four-player arcade videogame, followed by such worthies as Warlords, Eliminator, and Gauntlet.
Gotcha is the original video maze game. It was Atari's 4th release. The joysticks had plastic domes over them and it made it look like a pair of breasts, which was intentional.
Soylent Green is released in theaters, the first movie to show a video arcade game to the public (possibly the first video game at all shown in film). The game was Computer Space.
Space Race is released by Atari in 1973, their first game after Pong. It also is notable as other arcade developers were just creating Pong clones while Atari sought to do something different.
The first commercial video game. Installed in Tresidder Union in September 1971, the game was quickly and enthusiastically embraced by the Stanford community, with players often waiting for over an...
