Arcade Video Game
An Arcade Video Game is a video game that is an arcade game.
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- It can be found in a Video Game Arcade.
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- Example(s):
- Space Invaders (1978).
- Pac-Man (1980).
- Ms. Pac-Man (1982).
- Dance Dance Revolution (1998)
- DrumMania (1999)
- Virtua Cop (1994)
- Defender Arcade Game.
- Robotron Arcade Game.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Home-based Video Game Consoles, such as Playstation and Xbox.
- See: Coin-Operated, Amusement Arcade, Pinball, Electromechanics, Redemption Game, Golden Age of Arcade Video Games.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_game#Arcade_video_games Retrieved:2017-10-23.
- In 1971 students at Stanford University set up the Galaxy Game, a coin-operated version of the Spacewar video game. This ranks as the earliest known instance of a coin-operated video game. Later in the same year, Nolan Bushnell created the first mass-manufactured game, Computer Space, for Nutting Associates.
In 1972, Atari was formed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari essentially created the coin-operated video game industry with the game Pong, the first successful electronic ping pong video game. Pong proved to be popular, but imitators helped keep Atari from dominating the fledgling coin-operated video game market.
- In 1971 students at Stanford University set up the Galaxy Game, a coin-operated version of the Spacewar video game. This ranks as the earliest known instance of a coin-operated video game. Later in the same year, Nolan Bushnell created the first mass-manufactured game, Computer Space, for Nutting Associates.