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Credited with popularizing the "match-three" style of tile-matching puzzle games, Bejeweled has players attempting to swap jewels on a replenishing 8×8 board to form matches.
By combining digitized character graphics and extreme violence, Midway's 1992 fighter revolutionized the U.S. fighting game genre, spawned a long-running series, and helped create controversy regarding video game violence.
Star Wars: Jedi Arena is one of the first Star Wars games to ever be released on a video game console. The original release was back in 1983 for the Atari 2600.
An action maze game where a mouse policeman has to find stolen goods in a house filled with crooked cats.
Xevious is one of the first vertical scrolling shoot-em-up arcade games.
Dig dug is an arcade game released in 1982. The objective is to kill the underground monsters by either squishing them under a rock through the tunnels you create or by popping them using your weapon directly.
A sequel to the arcade classic featuring Pac-Man's feminine counterpart. The game is notable for having a variety of mazes as opposed to the single maze design in the original game, as well as bonus items that wandered through the mazes rather than appearing just in the center.
Pinball simulator for the Atari 2600
Bosconian is an arcade multi-directional shooter where players must clear levels of enemy space stations.
Galaga is a vertical shooter arcade game released in 1981. Developed by Namco and published by Namco and Midway.
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.
Missile Command is a classic arcade game in which players must delay their inevitable annihilation by destroying a barrage of incoming missiles.
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.
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.
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.
Breakout is an arcade game, originally created by Atari in 1976, and has seen numerous remakes and re-releases in the last three decades.
Pong, released in 1972, was the first commercially successful video game. Based on table tennis, players attempts to hit a ball past each other's paddles.
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