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The Golden Era of Video Games was a time of great technical breakthroughs and game design creativity in arcade games. Video arcade games were designed in a wide variety of genres, while game developers had to work within strict limits of available processor power and memory. This era also saw the rapid spread of video arcades and gamerooms across North America, Europe and Japan. At the same time, video games started to appear in supermarkets, restaurants, bars, pubs, liquor stores, gas stations, bowling alleys storefronts and many other retail establishments looking for extra income and customer traffic.Very popular video arcade games would more than on occasion cause a crush of teenagers at arcades, eager to try the latest in public entertainment.

The two most successful arcade game companies of this era were Namco (the Japanese company that created Pac-Man, Pole Position, and Dig Dug) and Atari (the US-based firm that first introduced video games into arcades). These two companies wrestled for the top slot in American video arcades for several years. Other prominent arcade companies such as Sega, Nintendo, Capcom, Konami, Taito, Williams, Bally / Midway Manufacturing Company, Cinematronics and SNK were among many others also played major roles in the early development of the video arcade game industry.

The arcade game industry truly entered its “Golden Age” in the late 70’s and early 80’s,with consumer awareness and market penetration of video arcade machines in bars, pubs, malls, storefronts and restaurants rising rapidly with introductions of such classic video arcade machines like Asteroids, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, and the timeless video arcade classic game, Pac-Man.

Retrogaming, also known as classic gaming and old school gaming, is the playing of older video game consoles, and/or video games (generally arcade), in contemporary times using emulators.

1942 - 1984	Arkanoid - 1986	Adventure Island - 1988

BurgerTime - 1982	Centipede - 1980	Castlevania - 1987

Commando - 1985	Defender - 1980	Dig Dug - 1982

Donkey Kong - 1981	Donkey Kong Jr. - 1982	Donkey Kong 3 - 1986

Duck Hunt - 1984	Frogger - 1981	Galaga - 1981

Gauntlet - 1985	Gun Smoke - 1985	Joust - 1982

Kung Fu - 1984	Ms. Pac Man - 1981	Pac-Man- 1980

Paperboy - 1984	Phoenix - 1980	Pitfall - 1982

Popeye - 1982	Qbert - 1982*	Rush'n Attack - 1985

Sonic - 1991	Space Invaders - 1978	Street Fighter - 1987

Super Pitfall - 1987	Tapper - 1983	Time Pilot - 1982

Zaxxon - 1982		plus 300 more Nintendo games plus 500 more Atari 2600 games plus 70 more Atari 7800 games and 85 more Sega games

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