The Arcade Revolution of the 70s and 80s - E-book - ePub

Do you want to know the arcade machines that started and expanded the path of the video game industry? In this book you will learn about the most outstanding games of the 70's and 80's that began to fill arcades with life. You will learn the story of the creation of Atari and Pong, the first successful arcade machine that started the industry, although not the first one that existed. You will discover the successes and failures of Atari in this decade trying to replicate the success of Pong, while other companies began to stand out until reaching the first golden age of video games with Space Invaders, Galaxian, Asteroids ...
plus many other essential titles for this decade. You will enjoy those machines that extended the success of the first great video games like Galaga, Donkey Kong, Centipede, and of course... the great revolution of Pac-Man. You will also discover the games that settled the industry at the end of the decade like Contra, Bubble Bobble, Out Run, Final Fight... opening the way to the splendorous decade of the 90's of the arcades. In this book you will find:- Computer Space, the first arcade machine in history.- Pong and the beginning of the video game industry.- The successes and failures in the early years of the industry: Space Race or the game of chasing women Gotcha.- The first driving games: Night Driver, Fonz, Death Race, Out Run...- Gun Fight, the first videogame to use microprocessors- Steve Jobs' intervention to create Breakout- The first great massification of video games with Space Invaders- The arrival of vector graphics: Barrier, Speed Freak, Tail Gunner...- The golden age of video games with Asteroids, Galaxian, Galaga, Pac-Man...- The first appearance of the future Super Mario on Donkey Kong- The fever for spaceship games: Space Wars, Defender...- The rise of cooperative games: Joust, Gauntlet, Contra, Bubble Bobble...- The first successful fighting games: Double Dragon, Final Fight... All this and many more titles for you to enjoy the origin and rise of video games in the arcades!