Browsing: Arcade games

Placing unsuspecting gamers right in the heart of a terrifying storm, Atari’s Tempest put a whole new perspective on video games. With dazzling QuadraScan™ colour…

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Released in 1976, Outlaw wasn’t the first arcade game to explore the Old West tradition of the shootout (Midway/Taito’s Gun Fight had done the same…

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The quest for realism in driving games got a boost in Sega’s 1981 simulator, Turbo. Shifting the action into a new perspective, Turbo put players…

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In the years after Star Wars (1977), anything involving outer space, zippy interstellar craft and dangerous battles was golden. Into this arena of sci-fi fantasy came…

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1982 gamers had never seen anything like Sega/Gremlin’s Zaxxon. Players had flown spaceships into strafing raids and interstellar dogfights before, but Zaxxon did it in…

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A classic vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up Namco arcade game (distributed by Atari), Xevious sent your ‘Solvalou’ craft into solo battle against the invading Xevious armies. Unfortunately, the…

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