New Arcade Games - Page 135
Soccer
1973
Soccer
1973
Soccer is Taito's third ever video game release and the first developed internally. The game was designed by the highly influential Tomohiro Nishikado, who would later go on to create Space Invaders. Soccer is a ball-and-paddle game like Pong, but with a green background to simulate a playfield, allowing each player to control both a forward and a goalkeeper. The players can adjust the size of the players, who are represented as paddles on screen. It also has a goal on each side. Soccer is likely to be Japan's first original domestically produced video game, in comparison to Japanese Pong clones released earlier, including Sega's Pong Tron and Taito's Elepong. Since it was exported to Europe in 1973 it may also be the first Japanese video game to be released on the European continent.Astro Race
1973
Astro Race
1973
Taito's second ever video game. It is based on Atari's Space Race and, like Elepong, uses imported PC Boards in a Taito-constructed cabinet.Pro Hockey
1973
Hockey
1973
Hockey
1973
Hockey was a PONG-clone by RamTeK featuring a somewhat different gameplay by introducing "forward" paddles which were moved simultaneously with the "goalie" paddles. Just like PONG ot got ported to various 1st generation consoles and was also one of the two build-in games for the Fairchild Channel F - the world's first 2nd generation console.Gotcha
1973
Gotcha
1973
Gotcha is a two-player maze game where the objective is to catch the other player. A maze is displayed on the screen. The first player controls the Pursuer which is represented by a square and the second player controls the Pursued which is represented by a plus sign. As the Pursuer moves closer and closer to the Pursued, an electronic beep sound increases in frequency to a feverish pitch until the Pursuer catches the Pursued. Each time, the Pursuer catches the Pursued, a point is scored and the chase starts over again.Pong Doubles
1973
Winner IV
1973
Pong-Tron
1973
Space Race
1973
Space Race
1973
star 6.7Space Race is the second arcade game created by Atari and was released in July, 1973. The two players each control a rocket ship; the object of the game is to make it from the bottom of the screen to the top, while avoiding obstacles such as asteroids. Score is kept electronically and the background consists of a simple starfield.Tennis Tourney
1973
Tennis Tourney
1973
Allied Leisure's second game was a four-player version of Paddle Battle. It was the first four-player Pong-style game, predating Atari's own Quadrapong by two months.Elepong
1973
Winner
1973
Paddle Battle
1973
Paddle Battle
1973
The first video game produced by Allied Leisure. It is a clone of Atari's pong, and was created by electronics firm Universal Research Laboratories more-or-less copying the board from a Pong machine Allied had purchased from a distrubutor.Volly
1973
Killer Shark
1972
Killer Shark
1972
Killer Shark is a first-person light-gun shooter arcade game that was published by Sega in 1972. The objective of the game is for the player is to repeatedly shoot the approaching sharks. The arcade received moderate success, but gained considerable notoriety after it was featured in the 1975 movie Jaws, seen being played by a gamer at a local beachside arcade in the community of Amity Island. This bit of levity left a major impression on audiences and made Killer Shark the first, and most famous shark arcade game ever.Play Ball
1972
Play Ball
1972
Play Ball was produced by Gremlin in 1972. From flyer: "It's the most versatile, smoothest-action wall game - completely programmable with plug-in serviceability. Pitcher can throw Fast Ball, Curve, Slider or Change Up. Better scores points for Home Run, Triple, Double or Single. A Strike scores a point for the other team. Play Ball has proven to be a true contest of skill and it simulates interest and competition in both players and spectators. "Computer Space
1971
Computer Space
1971
Computer Space is a video arcade game released in 1971 by Nutting Associates. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who would both later found Atari, Inc., it is generally accepted that it was the world's first commercially sold coin-operated video game of any kind, predating the Magnavox Odyssey's release by six months, and Atari's Pong by one year. It was first location tested at The Dutch Goose in August 1971, then debuted at the MOA show on October 15, 1971, and then officially released in November 1971. Though not commercially sold, the coin operated minicomputer-driven Galaxy Game appeared around the same time, located solely at Stanford University.Jet Rocket
1970
Jet Rocket
1970
An early 3D flight simulator game, released by Sega in 1970. It was an electro-mechanical arcade game, using video projection to display a 3D game world on screen. It features free-roaming, first-person flight shooting gameplay, making it the first primitive example of a flight simulator game, first-person shooter, and open world.Indy 500
1969
Bertie the Brain
1950
