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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- A look at the arcade games that were released in 1980!
A new decade for the arcades! We start to see the technical limitations in the 70s arcade loosen up as developers learn more of their craft! As arcades start to become more popular around the world, businesses take notice - and many fledgling arcade companies pop up - a few of which are still around today!
Having said that, 1980 was still very much a year of the Space Invaders clone. Every company had a single-screen vertically facing shooter (some had several!) We see early work by legends like Konami, Nintendo, Namco and Sega struggling to differentiate themselves from the competition without that much success.
The real king of 1980 arcades? My vote goes to Atari. They were simply so far ahead of the competition, in both technology (Battlezone) and gameplay (Centipede, Missile Command). Atari set the standards, rather than follow them!
Aside from Atari's contributions - it was also the year of a certain pellet-munching yellow blob...
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Complete Game List:
001 - Armor Attack
002 - Asteroids Deluxe
003 - Astro Wars
004 - Astropal
005 - Atari Soccer
006 - Attack UFO
007 - Balloon Bomber
008 - Bandido - Nintendo
009 - Battle Zone
010 - Berzerk
011 - Carnival
012 - Centipede
013 - Cheeky Mouse
014 - Crazy Balloon - Taito
015 - Crazy Climber
016 - Defender
017 - Destroyer
018 - Devil Zone
019 - Digger
020 - Dora-chan
021 - Eagle
022 - End, The
023 - Extra Bases - Dave Nutting Associates
024 - Future Flash
025 - Galactica - Batalha Espacial
026 - Green Beret
027 - Gun Champ
028 - HeliFire
029 - Highway Chase
030 - Indian Battle
031 - Invader's Revenge
032 - Kaitei Takara Sagashi
033 - Kamikaze
034 - Killer Comet
035 - King & Balloon
036 - Lupin III
037 - Mad Alien
038 - Magical Spot
039 - Magical Spot II
040 - Mayday
041 - Megatack
042 - Missile Command
043 - Moon Alien
044 - Moon Cresta
045 - Moon Quasar
046 - N-Sub
047 - Navarone
048 - New York! New York!
049 - Pac-Man /Puckman
050 - Phoenix
051 - Polaris
052 - Quasar
053 - R2D
054 - Radar Scope
055 - Rally X
056 - Red Baron
057 - Rip Off
058 - Samurai
059 - Sasuke vs. Commander
060 - Sea Battle
061 - Sengoku no Jieitai
062 - Shark Attack
063 - Sky Chuter
064 - Space Battle
065 - Space Cyclone
066 - Space Duel
067 - Space Encounters
068 - Space Firebird
069 - Space Force
070 - Space Invaders Deluxe
071 - Space Invaders II
072 - Space Intruder
072 - Space Laser
073 - Space Panic
074 - Space Trek - Sega
075 - Space Zap
076 - Spectar
077 - Speed Race
078 - Star Castle
079 - Steel Worker
080 - Streaking
081 - Super Invaders
082 - Tank Batallion
083 - Targ
084 - Tomahawk 777
085 - Tora Tora - Game Plan
086 - Tranquillizer Gun
087 - Ultra Invaders
088 - UniWar S
089 - Vortex
090 - Warlords
091 - Western Gun Part II
092 - Wizard of Wor
093 - Zero Hour
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Back to the early 80s -- Golden Age of the arcade!! An awesome little arcade with about 12-15 cabs opened just down the street from me in 1979 ... we were kids, but lucky enough to live right near a small college, and the owner made enough money to stay open until the mid-80s. Always brought good games in there, and of course there were much bigger arcades elsewhere around our city. Great times! Quarters well spent!
We can see quite a few "clones" of and variations on other more well-known games here in this video. It's one of the hallmarks of the era, as game programmers were learning their chops and making games quickly. But a lot of inventiveness too!! The games in this video I played a lot in 80-81 were: Battlezone, Berzerk, Centipede, Crazy Climber, Defender, Missile Command, Moon Cresta, Pac-Man, Phoenix, Rally-X, Red Baron, Wizard of Wor. What a lineup! In fact, those games are probably just about the collection of cabs my down-the-street arcade brought in that year... wow. They also still had a couple of older 78-79 games like Space Invaders, Monaco GP (which I loved! my first SEGA game!), Galaxian, Asteroids.
Battlezone is still an awesome game.
I remember seeing Cheeky Mouse just one time. It was such an obscure game. For decades I misremembered the main character as another version of Mario.
I was addicted to Moon Cresta as a college student.
At the time, Star Castle impressed me with its vector graphics. It was fun but difficult to play.
Interesting that Armor attack involves a color overlay.
I played a ton of Galaxian and Missile Command at my local arcade.
Tank Batallion is probably my favourite so many hours on that one. I think Asteroids and Centipede are a closse second and third though for me.
Maybe I'm one of the few people who still love Carnival.
You are not alone!
Dora-Chan and Steel Worker look like they were made on a ZX-Spectrum (TS-20268). Not that these computers existed at the time, but I noticed a few games like Frenzy and Bezerk appeared to have a character-based background with each 8x8 character only having one color. It is perhaps the most primitive way to have a raster color display. These games don't appear to have sprite hardware.
Give me the 1980s classic game battle zone
2:59 - A game where the player plays a cowboy and massacres members of a minority. The 80's were really something.
80s was the best time ever! ❤
At the time, I thought that Defender was awesome. It has become too dated.