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An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses such as restaurants, public houses, and video arcades. Most arcade games are redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw crane), video games, or pinball machines.
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Duck Hunt
Duck Hunt (ダックハント) is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game console system in which players use the NES Zapper to shoot ducks on screen for points. The game was developed and published by Nintendo, and was released in 1984 in...
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Nibbles
Nibbles is a simple video game and variant of Snake. It may have been influenced by Mozaik Software's 1984 Amstrad CPC game, Nibbler. Nibbles was written in QBasic by Rick Raddatz, who later went on to create small business companies such as Xiosoft...
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- 1991
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Breakout
Breakout is an arcade game developed by Atari, Inc and introduced on May 13, 1976. It was conceptualized by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow, and influenced by the 1972 arcade game Pong. The game was ported to video game consoles and upgraded to...
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- 1976
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Gorilla
Gorillas is a video game first distributed with MS-DOS 5. It is a turn-based artillery game. The game consists of two gorillas throwing explosive bananas at each other above a city skyline. The players can adjust the angle and velocity of each throw...
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- 1991
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Discs of Tron
Discs of Tron is the second arcade game based on 1982 Disney movie Tron.
While the first Tron arcade game had several mini-games (Gridbugs, Light Cycles, entering the MCP cone and Tanks), Discs of Tron is inspired by the short sequence in Tron the...
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- 1983
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PSSST
Pssst is a ZX Spectrum video game made by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. In the game Robbie the Robot has to protect his plant (a Thyrgodian Megga Chrisanthodil) as it is attacked by various insects (Interstellar Space Slugs, Scuttling Leaches and...
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- 1983
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Cookie
Cookie is a ZX Spectrum video game written by Chris and Tim Stamper and published by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. It was one of four 16K games by Ultimate that were available on ROM format for use with the ZX Interface 2. A version was also...
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Power Stone 2
Power Stone 2 is a multiplayer fighting game that built on the innovative gameplay introduced by its predecessor, Power Stone. Power Stone 2 allows up to four players to choose from multiple characters and use the environment around them for...
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- 2000
Spider-Man and Captain America in Doctor Doom's Revenge
Spider-Man and Captain America in Doctor Doom's Revenge was a side-scrolling computer game starring Marvel Comics' superheroes Spider-Man and Captain America battling a host of supervillains led by Doctor Doom. The player alternately controls Spidey...
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- 1989
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Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt is an NES cartridge that combines the games Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt. The player would select which game to play on the first menu. It is the best-selling NES cartridge in the United States, largely because it was...
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- 1988
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3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet
3-in-1 Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet is a compilation video game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in December 1990.
For information about the preceding 1988 compilation, see Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. For any...
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- 1988
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Pinball Illusions
Pinball Illusions is an Commodore Amiga and MS-DOS computer game from 1995 developed by Digital Illusions CE, as a sequel of Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Dreams. The original Amiga release featured three tables - the PC CD version added a fourth, ...
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- 1995
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Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (abbreviated AC5) (エースコンバット5 ジ・アンサング・ウォー, Ēsu Konbatto Faibu Ji Ansangu Wō), and released in PAL territories as Ace Combat: Squadron Leader, is a semi-realistic flight combat game for the PlayStation 2. Like other titles...
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- Oct 21, 2004
Chuckie Egg
A&F; Software's Chuckie Egg is a home computer video game released in 1983, initially for the ZX Spectrum, the BBC Micro and the Dragon. Its subsequent popularity saw it released over the following years on a wide variety of computers, including the...
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Astro Robo Sasa
Sasa, is an arcade video game released for the MSX1 in 1984 and later for the Famicom titled as Astro Robo SASA (アストロロボSASA) in 1985. The game involved obtaining capsules with an 'E' on them, sometimes suspended by balloons. The main character could...
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- Aug 9, 1985
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Lords of the Rising Sun
Lords of the Rising Sun is a 1989 video game by Cinemaware, released for the Amiga among other systems. Like the earlier Defender of the Crown, it was a mix of map-based strategy and arcade-style mini games as the player - one of famous Japanese...
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- 1989
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Apeiron
Apeiron is a Macintosh computer game developed and released by Ambrosia Software. A remake of the 1980 arcade game Centipede, it was first released in February, 1995. In November 2004, the game was ported to Mac OS X.
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Full Tilt! Pinball
Full Tilt! Pinball (known simply as Full Tilt!) is a pinball video game developed by Cinematronics and published by Maxis in 1995. It featured pre-rendered 3D graphics and three "tables", which were essentially different games. The tables were...
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- Mar 13, 1996
Pong Kombat
Pong Kombat is a fan-made parody video game produced by Stefan Gagne for a high school computer class assignment in 1994. The game combines the traditional gameplay of the arcade classic Pong with the over-the-top violence and gameplay of Mortal...
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- Dec 31, 1994
Bomberman
Bomberman (ボンバーマン, Bonbāman) is an arcade-style maze-based video game developed by Hudson Soft. It was first released in 1983 for the MSX, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, Sharp MZ-700 and FM-7 in Japan, and for the ZX Spectrum in Europe (under the English...
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Guardic
Guardic (ガーディック, Gādikku) is a shoot 'em up video game for the MSX computer. It was created and developed by Pac Fujishima while working for Compile, the creators of other shoot 'em up games such as Zanac, The Guardian Legend, and Blazing Lazers....
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Pac-Man Collection
Pac-Man Collection (パックマンコレクション, Pakkuman Korekushon) is a compilation of four Pac-Man games, released in 2001 and 2002 for the Game Boy Advance: Pac-Man, Pac-Mania and Pac-Man Arrangement, all ports of arcade games which follow the essence of...
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Lunar Jetman
Lunar Jetman is a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by Ultimate Play The Game in 1983. The game is the second in the Jetman series, following on from his adventures in Jetpac. In the game, Jetman has to defend the Earth (and himself)...
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Cyberun
Cyberun is a ZX Spectrum video game ostensibly developed by Ultimate Play The Game and published by U.S. Gold in 1986. Although not part of the Jetman series, it has similarities to Jetpac in that the player must construct their spaceship from parts...
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- 1986
Bubbler
Bubbler is a ZX Spectrum video game developed by Ultimate Play The Game and published by U.S. Gold in 1987. Although it uses isometric projection, as with Ultimate's second-generation isometric releases such as Nightshade and Gunfright, Bubbler used...
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- 1987
Ghetto Blaster
Ghetto Blaster is a computer game that was released for the Commodore 64 in 1985.
The aim of the game is to find and collect ten tapes of dance music, get people to dance to them by blasting them with notes from your blaster, then delivering them to...
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- 1985
Dizzy Down the Rapids
Dizzy Down the Rapids is an arcade style action video game that was published in 1991 by Codemasters for the Amstrad CPC, Spectrum, DOS, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and Amiga.
The game involves Dizzy riding barrels down a river avoiding obstacles and...
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- Apr 1991
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Operation Neptune
Operation Neptune is an educational computer game produced in 1991 by The Learning Company. The goal of the game is to guide a small submarine through a variety of undersea caverns, collecting pieces of a ruined space capsule. Like other games by...
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- 1991
NASCAR 06: Total Team Control
NASCAR 06: Total Team Control is the ninth installment of the EA Sports' NASCAR video game series. It was developed by EA Tiburon and released on August 30, 2005 for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The NTSC game cover features Hendrick Motorsports...
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- Aug 30, 2005
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Snakes
Snakes is an update to the classic Snake game from Nokia. It is freely downloadable from the Nokia N-Gage website, and can be copied to another N-Gage handset via Bluetooth. A new version is now available as an embedded game on most N-series...
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Konami Arcade Classics
Konami Arcade Classics is an arcade compilation released in 1999 for the PlayStation. It was originally released in the arcades as Konami 80's AC Special. It contained ten games; Pooyan, Scramble, Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Roc 'n' Rope, Shao-Lin's Road,...
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- 1999
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been made into two video games: once in 1985 and also in 2005. The games are based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1985 video game which was released on the ZX...
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Pizza Worm
Pizza Worm is a 1994 game by Sami "Zorlim" Lehtinen. This game is about controlling a worm and eating pizza. The game is a reminiscent of Nibbles. Uniquely, you could turn at any angle in this game.
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- 1994
Back to the Future Part III
Back to the Future Part III (or Back to the Future III) is the title of a video game released for the Sega Genesis and is based on the film of the same name. The game is different from LJN's Back to the Future Part II & III video game released for...
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Ugh!
Ugh! is an arcade/flight game developed by Bones Park Software Artistic and published in 1992 by PlayByte for the Amiga, Commodore 64 and DOS.
The game is a clone of Space Taxi. It features a caveman who, in order to appeal to his beloved future...
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- 1992
Tornado Low Level
Tornado Low Level (also known as T.L.L.) is a game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC computers, and released by Vortex Software in 1984 . It was written by Costa Panayi who also coded Android, Android 2, Highway Encounter, Cyclone and...
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- 1984
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SD F-1 Grand Prix
SD F-1 Grand Prix (ＳＤ Ｆ－１グランプリ, "Super Deformed F-1 Grand Prix") is a Japan-only Super Famicom game where the player gets to control cute and cuddly cartoon animals (bear, rabbit, tortoise, etc.) in cutesy race tracks inspired by real life Formula...
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- Oct 27, 1995
Star Trek: Legacy
Star Trek: Legacy is a video game released by Mad Doc Software for Microsoft Windows based PCs and Xbox 360. The game, a strategy/action game, was published by Bethesda Softworks. It was originally planned for release in the fall of 2006 to coincide...
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Starship Command
Acornsoft's Starship Command is a computer game released in 1983 for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. It was available on cassette as well as 5.25" disc for the BBC and ROM cartridge for the Acorn Electron Plus 1 expansion module.
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Barrack
Barrack is a video game written by Ambrosia Software for Mac OS. It was published on March 8, 1996 and sold for US$15.00, with a free demo for downloading.
The objective of Barrack is to use a laser, guided by the mouse and shot with a click, which...
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- Mar 8, 1996
Barker Bill's Trick Shooting
Barker Bill's Trick Shooting is an NES shooter made by Nintendo. It was released in 1990. It is based on the cartoon show titled Barker Bill's Cartoon Show, which was created by Paul Terry in 1952. Barker Bill's Cartoon Show was one of the earliest...
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- 1990
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Nibbler
Nibbler is a simple video game, and is the basis for the popular MS-DOS game Nibbles, which is likely the reason that the very similar video game Snake is a popular game on today's mobile phones. Its object is to navigate a virtual snake (or worm)...
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- 1982
Bubble Ghost
Bubble Ghost is a French 1987 video game created by Christophe Andreani and published by ERE Informatique.
Bubble Ghost is a 2D arcade game. The player controls the ghost using the computer mouse and makes him blow at a bubble. The objective is to...
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- 1987
Black Dawn
Black Dawn is a helicopter-combat simulation, published by Virgin Interactive. It was released on the PlayStation in 1996, and the Sega Saturn in 1997.
Set in 1998, the player controls a helicopter ace recruited into a black ops counterterrorism...
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- Sep 30, 1996
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Golden Axe II
Golden Axe II is a side-scrolling fighting game (or side-scrolling beat'em up) released for the Sega Mega Drive. It was released on December 26, 1991. It is the home console sequel to the popular game Golden Axe, marking the second game in the...
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Taito Legends 2
Taito Legends 2 is the sequel to Taito Legends and is a follow-up collection of 39 (or 43, see below) Taito arcade games for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC.
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Arthur and the Invisibles
Arthur and the Invisibles (known in Europe as Arthur and the Minimoys)is a video game based on the 2006 film of the same name by Luc Besson.
The game allows players to relive the fantastic adventure of young Arthur and his two pals, Selenia and...
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- Jan 9, 2007
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Soccer Fury
Soccer Fury is a three-on-three arcade action game combining street soccer with fighting techniques.
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BeamWars
BeamWars is a Macintosh shareware arcade-style game that was popular in the early 1990s, created by Steve Crutchfield while he was attending the Illinois Math and Science Academy. Its pioneering use of digitized sound, music and voice effects ...
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- 1992
Metal Slug Anthology
Metal Slug Anthology is a video game compilation for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Wii. The Wii version boasts different controller configurations, most taking advantage of the Wii Remote, but the Classic Controller is not supported....
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- Dec 15, 2006
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Popeye no Eigo Asobi
Popeye no Eigo Asobi (ポパイの英語遊び, Popai no Eigo Asobi, Popeye's English Game) is the Japanese-exclusive sequel to the Popeye arcade game. Along with a port of its predecessor, it was released on the Family Computer in 1983. It is an educational video...
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- Nov 22, 1983
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Kick
Kick is an arcade game where the player controls a clown on a unicycle, catching falling balloons and Pac-Man characters on the clown's hat. The game was later renamed to Kick Man.
At the beginning of each round, a set of balloons and (in later...
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- 1981
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Atomic Bomberman
Atomic Bomberman is a game by Interplay for the PC that was released in 1997. It was the first original Bomberman game to be developed for Windows, and the second game made for the PC, following 1992's Bomber Man.
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- 1996
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Frogger 3D
Frogger 3D (also simply known as Frogger) is a video game remake of the classic 1981 arcade game Frogger. It was released on November 3, 1997. The player's objective is to search the map for five small colored frogs (his children): a red one, a blue...
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NASCAR 07
NASCAR 07 is the tenth installment of the EA Sports' NASCAR video game series. It was developed by EA Tiburon and released on September 6, 2006 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PlayStation Portable.
The NTSC game cover features Elliott Sadler,...
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- Sep 6, 2006
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Defend Your Castle
Defend Your Castle is a Macromedia Flash-based browser game developed by XGen Studios. The game was well received and prompted XGen to release a prequel titled Pillage the Village, with similar game play.
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Angel Kids
Angel Kids is a 2-player arcade game released by Sega in 1985. Players take turns controlling two flying (angelic) children holding a rope. Pull the two joysticks outwards and the rope gets taut. This throws a third (normal) child into balloons,...
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- 1985
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Subroc-3D
SubRoc-3D is an arcade game released in 1983 by Sega, and the first such game to provide a three-dimensional image to the player, using a display that delivers individual images to each eye. This is to be distinguished from the visuals used in games...
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- 1983
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Snapper
Snapper is a computer game written by Jonathan Griffiths for the BBC Micro and released as one of the launch titles for Acornsoft in 1982. It was later released as one of Acornsoft's launch titles for the Acorn Electron in 1983.
The game is a...
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- 1982
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The Amazing Adventures of Mr. F. Lea
Mr. F. Lea is an arcade game that was released by Pacific Novelty in 1982. It is a 4-in-1 game that borrows gameplay elements from three popular games of the time (Donkey Kong, Frogger, and Jungle King) and includes a fourth game where Mr. F. Lea...
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