An arcade game (or coin-op) is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses, such as restaurants, bars, and particularly amusement parks. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchindisers (such asclaw cranes).
The golden age of arcade games lasted from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. While arcade games were still relatively popular during the late 1990s, the entertainment medium saw a continuous decline in popularity in the Western hemisphere when home-basedVideo games consoles made the transition from 2D graphics to 3D graphics. Despite this, arcades remain popular in many parts of Asia as late as the early 2010s.
The term "arcade game" is also, in recent times, used to refer to a video game that was designed to play similarly to an arcade game with frantic, addicting gameplay.
1971 - Space War re released as a coin operated arcade game and renamed The Galaxy Game.
1972 - Atari releases Pong.
1973 - Konami Industry Co, established to made arcade games.
1974 - The number of copies of Pong (or commercial clones of PONG) exceeds 100,000 units. .Approximately 10,000 of these units were manufactured by Atari, the original developer of the title.
1975 -
Atari and Tele-Games (a division of Sears, Roebuck and Company) release the first official home version of Pong through Sears department stores.
Magnavox releases two new models of their Odyssey console: the Odyssey 100 and the Odyssey 200.
1976 - October – Warner Communications acquires Atari from Nolan Bushnell for $28 million USD. Bushnell stays on as chairman.
1977 -
Agnes Kim opens the first Electronics Boutique, a kiosk at the King of Prussia Mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania selling transistor radios and calculators.
Atari opens the first Pizza Time Theater (later Chuck E. Cheese's), a combination video arcade/pizzeria conceived by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. In June, Bushnell purchases the rights to Pizza Time Theater back from Atari for $500,000 USD.
1978 -
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