Luckily for Capcom, the second version of their Street Fighter game was much more successful than the first. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior – 200,000 units sold This was one of the first games to have an actual storyline, and has been called one of the toughest arcade games in history.ģ.
#Golden age of pacman series#
Pac-Man is actually credited with opening up gaming to a female audience, and made Pac-Man the only video game series to be featured twice in the top five.ĭonkey Kong was first released in 1981 by Nintendo and featured the debut of Jumpman, who would later become Mario. Pac-Man was produced by Bally/Midway Manufacturing and was released in 1982. The following classic arcade games are the best sellers of all time and have each sold more than 100,000 machines.Ī spin-off of the original Pac-Man game, Ms. Super Mario Bros were at the height of their popularity. The resulting “golden age” of video arcade games took place from 1978 to 1986 when games like Space Invaders, Frogger and Vs. This ushered in what amounted to a gaming gold rush, where many developers wanted to create the next big hit.
The first successful video game was Pong by Atari Inc.
Despite their stone-age quality graphics in comparison with newer games and their simplistic gameplay (or maybe in part thanks to), these arcade games still maintain a loyal fan following that has solidified them as cultural fixtures even to this day. While new arcade games come and go, there are some revered classics whose perfect mix of addictive gameplay and nostalgia have sustained their popularity for decades.
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