Most Popular Arcade Games - Page 51
Crashing Race
1976
Crashing Race
1976
An arcade driving game released by Taito in 1976. The game features destruction derby-style gameplay where the players score by crashing into as many computer-controlled cars as possible.Davis Cup
1973
Davis Cup
1973
Taito's fifth game and the second developed in house. The game is another ball-and-paddle variation, like three of Taito's previous four releases, but with the added functionality of four players being able to play doubles. This was an important innovation during the 1973-1974 Pong craze first introduced in Allied Leisure's Tennis Tourney.Soccer
1973
Soccer
1973
Soccer is Taito's third ever video game release and the first developed internally. The game was designed by the highly influential Tomohiro Nishikado, who would later go on to create Space Invaders. Soccer is a ball-and-paddle game like Pong, but with a green background to simulate a playfield, allowing each player to control both a forward and a goalkeeper. The players can adjust the size of the players, who are represented as paddles on screen. It also has a goal on each side. Soccer is likely to be Japan's first original domestically produced video game, in comparison to Japanese Pong clones released earlier, including Sega's Pong Tron and Taito's Elepong. Since it was exported to Europe in 1973 it may also be the first Japanese video game to be released on the European continent.Astro Race
1973
Astro Race
1973
Taito's second ever video game. It is based on Atari's Space Race and, like Elepong, uses imported PC Boards in a Taito-constructed cabinet.Attack UFO
1974
Attack UFO
1974
The player controls guided missiles shot from the bottom of the screen and tries to steer them into the attacking U.F.O.sDouble Block
1979
Top Runner
1978
Space Fighter
1978
Secret Base
1978
Pro Racer
1978
Crash Course
1977
Superbowl
1977
Superbowl
1977
Superbowl is an arcade game released by Sega in 1977. It is a reworked version of Robot Bowl, a 1977 arcade game by Exidy (licensed to Sega) which, despite its name, has nothing to do with American football but instead bowling. Super Bowl was released exclusively to a Japanese audience - other markets saw Exidy's original game.Heavyweight Champ
1976
Heavyweight Champ
1976
A rudimentary boxing arcade game released by Sega in 1976. The controls consist of a boxing glove used to simulate punches. The game would see a remake a decade later in 1987.Squadron
1976
Sparkling Corner
1976
Sparkling Corner
1976
A four-player racing game by Sega. The four cars race along the screen in a side view, with collisions between them causing them to slow down. The winner is the car which has travelled the furthest during the allotted time.Warpitout
1982
Donkey Kong
The Coleco Adam port of Donkey Kong was developed by Coleco and released in 1984.Space War
1978
Space War
1978
Space War is the first game released by Vectorbeam after its founders left Cinematronics. It is essentially a very close version of Cinematronic's Space Wars, which had in turn been brought to Cinematronics by Vectorbeam founder Larry Rosenthal as a prototype inspired by the 1962 PDP-1 game Spacewar.Tail Gunner
1979
Tail Gunner
1979
Tail Gunner is vector arcade game created by Vectorbeam in 1979. As enemy space craft attack the player, they must aim a set of cross-hairs and shoot the enemies before they move past the player's laser cannons or use shield to bounce them back into play.Galaxy War
1978
Galaxy War
1978
Galaxy War is a discrete logic arcade game released by Sega in 1978. It is a shooting game which is very similar to Bullet Mark—four types of targets, such as spacecraft and disks, are aimed at by one or two players. There is a bullet indicator and you can fire the trigger while squeezing the trigger.
