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The first 16-bit video game, Pole Position was responsible for popularizing third-person psuedo-3D graphics and racing games as a whole.
Mission-X, also known as Zoar, is a vertical scrolling shooter from Nihon Bussan and Data East, released in early 1982.
Adventure game based on the popular movie
Turbo is an early racer released by Sega in 1981, using a third-person rear-view racer format nearly a year before Pole Position. The ColecoVision port featured a racing wheel and gas pedal peripheral to simulate the arcade experience of the original.
Galaga is a vertical shooter arcade game released in 1981. Developed by Namco and published by Namco and Midway.
Fight through waves of robotic birds to engage the mothership in this 1980 video arcade game. It was developed by the Japanese company Hiraoka, and licensed to Taito, Amstar and Centuri.
Released by Sega in 1979, Monaco GP was a vertical-scrolling racing game, notable for its early use of sprite-scaling, achieved without the use of a CPU.
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.
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 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.
A first-person arcade racing game released by Kasco in 1968. It was an electro-mechanical game using a form of video projection to display a racing track on a screen. It was a precursor to first-person racing video games.
An Arkanoid-inspired game for PC.
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A card-based dungeon crawler in which the enemies are female monsters. Once defeated several times or summoned, any monster can be chosen as a combat partner, leveling up and gaining new abilities.
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