An arcade video game is an arcade game where the player's inputs from the game's controllers are processed through … See more

Since the early 20th century, skee ball and other pin-based games had been a popular arcade game. The first pinball machines had been introduced in the 1930s but gained a reputation as games of chance and had been bann… See more

While early video games running on computers had been developed as far back as 1950, the first video game to spread beyond a single computer installation, Spacewar!, was developed by students and staff at … See more

In 1978, Taito released Space Invaders, first in Japan, followed by its North American release. Among its novel gameplay features that drove its popularity, the game was the first to maintain a persistent high score. … See more

Though 1982 was recognized as the height of success of the video game arcade, many in the industry knew the success could not last too long. Walter Day had commented in 1982 that there were "too many arcades" by that point fo… See more

The arcade industry began recovering in 1985 and made a comeback by 1986, with the arcade industry experiencing several years of growth during the late 1980s. A major factor in its recovery was the arrival of software … See more