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unusual facts about arcade games



Import scene

With this spawned several arcade games, which utilizes cars from both the manga, plus other cars associated with touge racing.

Liberty Games

Their products include arcade games, pool tables, snooker tables, table tennis tables, jukeboxes, pinball machines, retro gaming, air hockey, dartboards, casino tables, outdoor products, driving simulators, slot machines, football tables, and various novelty game products, including multi-game tables, football coffee tables, LED pool tables.

Yamaha YM2151

It was also used in arcade games, starting with Atari's Marble Madness, and later being licensed for use by many other companies including Sega, Konami, Capcom, Data East Pinball and Namco, with its heaviest use in the late 1980s, as well as in the Sharp X1 and Sharp X68000 home computers.


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Astro Wars

In concept Astro Wars has similar themes to arcade games Galaxians or Gorf in as much as the player controls a ship (called earth ship) at the bottom of the screen and fires up at rows of ships.

CDS Software

The first games released in 1982-3 were for the 16k ZX Spectrum consisting mainly of clones of arcade games.

Chasing Ghosts

Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade, a documentary film directed by Lincoln Ruchti about the golden age of video arcade games

Crude Buster

The arcade version was later included in the compilation disc Data East Arcade Classics, along with other Data East arcade games bought by G-Mode after Data East's bankruptcy.

Loading screen

Examples include variations of their old arcade games (Galaxian or Rally-X for example) as loading screens when first booting up many of their early PlayStation releases.

M Network

M Network produced home ports of popular arcade games, including BurgerTime, Bump 'n' Jump and Lock 'n' Chase (all 1982) as well as original titles such as Tron: Deadly Discs (1982 – based on the Disney movie) and Kool-Aid Man (1983), one of the earliest "promogames", originally available only via mail order by sending in UPC symbols from Kool-Aid containers.

Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc.

The plaintiff, Midway Manufacturing sued defendant Artic International, Inc. for allegedly infringing copyrights on two of its video arcade games, Pac-Man and Galaxian.

Page orientation

Portrait mode is popular with arcade games that involve a vertically oriented playing area, such as Pac Man and Donkey Kong.

Place to Place

She is skilled at arcade games and is very similar to Konata Izumi from Lucky Star.

Rave Cinemas

Most theaters features multiple concession stands, arcade games, online and kiosk ticketing, and a futuristic environment with special lighting, LCD menu and film trailer displays, and some have a stylized special event room.

Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips

Used on the Atari arcade games Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 720°, Gauntlet, Gauntlet II, A.P.B., Paperboy, RoadBlasters, Vindicators Part II, and finally Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters.

Video game clone

Many famous titles by Jeff Minter were clones of arcade games in which graphics were turned from the original robot/spaceship graphics to animal creatures.

Yukinori Taniguchi

As a child, Taniguchi became an enthusiastic arcade gamer, spending much time on early arcade games such as Space Invaders.