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2. Golden age of arcade video games - Wikipedia

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   The golden age of arcade video games was the period of rapid growth, technological development, and cultural influence of arcade video games from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. The release of Space Invaders in 1978 led to a wave of shoot-'em-up games such as Galaxian and the vector graphics -based Asteroids in 1979, made possible by new ...

3. Gauntlet (1985 video game) - Wikipedia

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   Gauntlet is a 1985 fantasy -themed hack-and-slash arcade video game developed and released by Atari Games. [ 3] It is one of the first multiplayer dungeon crawl arcade games. [ 8][ 9] The core design of Gauntlet comes from 1983 game Dandy for the Atari 8-bit computers, which resulted in a threat of legal action. [ 10]

4. Joust (video game) - Wikipedia

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   Action. Mode (s) Up to 2 players simultaneously. Joust is an action game developed by Williams Electronics and released in arcades in 1982. While not the first two-player cooperative video game, Joust ' s success and polished implementation popularized the concept. Players assume the role of knights armed with lances and mounted on large birds ...

5. Berzerk (video game) - Wikipedia

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   Berzerk is a multidirectional shooter designed by Alan McNeil and released for arcades in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Following Taito 's Stratovox, it is one of the first arcade video games with speech synthesis. Berzerk places the player in a series of top-down, maze-like rooms containing armed robots.

6. Defender (1981 video game) - Wikipedia

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   Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Defender was Jarvis's first video game project and drew inspiration from Space Invaders and Asteroids. Defender was demonstrated in late 1980 and was released in March 1981. It was distributed in Japan by Taito . Defender was one of the most important titles of the golden ...

7. Tempest (video game) - Wikipedia

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   Genre (s) Tube shooter. Mode (s) 1-2 players alternating turns. Tempest is a 1981 arcade video game by Atari, Inc., designed and programmed by Dave Theurer. It takes place on a three-dimensional surface divided into lanes, sometimes as a closed tube, and viewed from one end. The player controls a claw-shaped "blaster" that sits on the edge of ...