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Arcade Games History

1) Computer Space, Nutting Associates 1971: this was the first ever commercial arcade video game which was released by the Nutting Associates in 1971. This game comprised of a simple design which had a 13" GE television built inside a fibre glass cabinet.

2) Pong, Atari Inc, 1972: This was the first ever commercially successful arcade game. This was built by the same person who built the previous arcade game but this time he formed a new company naming it ATARI. The game was very simple and the users could understand what they have to do very quickly thus the customers enjoyed the game and eventually becoming a big success. The game was made of a ball bouncing silently around the screen as if in a vacuum. The basic theme of the game was to avoid the ball on both sides thus the once every time you miss the ball you score points. Pond became such a hit that Atari had to made almost 38000 of the game. Later it was replaced by improved version of PONG known as the Pong Doubles.

3) Tank Kee Games, /Atari Inc 1974: This was the first arcade game that used the technology of using ROM (Read Only Memory). By using this sort of memory they were able to store graphic data in the chips and thus making the game more realistic. They replaced normal graphics like blocks that was used Pong and Computer Space by outing in more details figures in the game. This was big progressive thus making the game successful.

4) Gunfight, Taito/Midway 1975: This game was developed by the Midway Company in 1975. This game became famous since two players at the same time could play the game and also it used a microprocessor for the first time in an arcade game.

5) Night driver, Atari Inc.1976: This was the first game that was built with a first person perspective. Before this game there were racing game with a bird's eye view of the game. The night theme was chosen to make the game more attractive and also look complicated with its imaging. It was 3d game and for May years a lot...