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New Rally-X is the successor to Namco's Rally X. The game was originally released in 1981.
Released in 1980, Battlezone was an arcade machine where you assumed the role of a tank commander in a vector-based graphic world. Allowing for split screen multiplayer, it entertained for years, and even in the '90s.
Released by Namco for arcades in 1980, Rally-X was the first scrolling open-world video game, and the first open-world driving/racing game.
Released by SNK in 1980, it was an early shoot 'em up that featured human characters on foot instead of vehicles, spacecraft, or aliens. The player character faces off against multiple shuriken-throwing ninjas and along the way faces several bosses, such as a flame-shooting shinobi.
A game often considered the first platformer, predating Donkey Kong.
Go for it! Climb to the top of the building as a helicopter awaits! A precursor to the platformer genre, Crazy Climber was the first game revolving around climbing.
Tranquilizer Gun is an arcade game released by Sega in 1980, and ported to the Master System in 1983. The goal is to sedate animals and get them to a vehicle before they wake up. It was included as a bonus game in the Dreamcast release of Dynamite Cop!.
A vertical-scrolling shoot em up, released in 1980.
One of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man was released in arcades in 1980 and became a pop culture icon for the decade.
A game of vertical chicken where players are given higher scores the longer they delay pulling the chute. Miss the target and you score nothing. Don't pull the chute in time and you lose points.
Heiankyo Alien is a 1979 maze game originally developed and released for the NEC PC-8001 and for for arcades. It is the first "trap 'em up" game and the first game to feature a digging mechanic.
1979 first-person shoot 'em up, from the developer of Space Invaders, Taito.
Early Breakout clone from Nintendo, featuring a giant monkey head to destroy.
Radar Scope was one of Nintendo's first arcade video games, a space shooter with a pseudo-3D third-person perspective. While a hit in Japan, it was unpopular overseas. The popular worldwide hit Donkey Kong was based on its hardware.
Atari's bestselling game of all time, Asteroids was one of the most influential releases of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. One of the first space shooters, it was the inspiration for many of the dual stick shooter games of the modern era, Geometry Wars chief among them.
Space Launcher is a 1979 arcade game developed and published by Nintendo. Its gameplay appears to be a cross between Space Invaders and Frogger, except it came out nearly two years before Frogger.
Battle space aliens and avoid their suicidal attacks to survive in the world of Galaxian, Namco's first installment in the Galaxian franchise. It was a technical breakthrough in 1979, featuring RGB color, multi-colored sprites, a tilemap playfield, vertical scrolling background, and enemies with individual AI routines.
1979 arcade shooter by Nintendo where the player must fight sixteen surrounding desperadoes. A precursor to Donkey Kong, it was designed by Genyo Takeda, with assistance from Shigeru Miyamoto, working on his first video game. Possibly the first run & gun shooter, it also introduced the damsel-in-distress trope to gaming as well as continuous background music.
This 1979 Taito arcade game challenged the player to set down on a narrow landing pad at the bottom of the screen, rescue a stranded astronaut, and return to the mothership at the top of the screen. Meteors and hostile aliens added considerably to the challenge.
Originally called Space Invaders Part II in Japan, this is the first sequel to the coin-munching hit Space Invaders. This game is notable for introducing the concept of a cut-scene.
Exidy's Star Fire was released to arcades in 1978. An unofficial port to the Atari 2600 was released on cartridge in 2003.
An arcade racing game from Taito.
Space Invaders, released in arcades by Taito in 1978, is one of the most influential and successful video games of all time, laying the foundations for most shooters and action games that followed. It revolutionized the game industry and has become a pop culture icon.
A black and white arcade game released by Project Support Engineering in 1977. The arcade cabinet is notable for having a built-in bazooka gun that the player uses while playing the game.
A racing game released by Taito in 1976. It is a simultaneous two-player version of Tomohiro Nishikado's 1974 arcade game Speed Race.
Fandango is a pinball machine made in 1976 by Playmatic.
Released by Sega in 1974, it was an early first-person light-gun shooter video game, featuring both single-player and multi-player modes.
A racing game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released by Taito in 1974, also known as Racer or Wheels. It was one of the first driving video games, and was groundbreaking for innovations such as vertical scrolling, sprites with collision detection, and driving wheel controls.
An early first-person shooting arcade game released by Sega in 1969. It resembles a first-person light-gun shooter video game, but is in fact an electro-mechanical arcade game that uses rear image projection to produce moving animations on a screen.
Parsec 47 is an abstract top-down shooter developed by Japanese game developer Kenta Cho
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