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Defender Year Of Release: 1980 Studio: Williams Description Released in 1980, Defender is one of the most beloved games from the 1980’s. Interestingly while, Defender would go on to be one of the highest grossing arcade games of the 1980’s it actually had a somewhat slow start, but once it started picking up momentum there was no stopping it and before long it was a game that arcades all over the world wanted. At the time Defender was released, Williams were more well known for their pinball machines and actually the lead designer of Defender, Eugene Jarvis before he worked...

Pac-Man Year Of Release: 1980 Studio: Namco Description Pac-Man is gaming’s very first super star. The game was originally released in 1980 by Namco in Japan. Interestingly in Japan, he was called Puck-Man. However when the game was released in the West. People were worried that that the arcade cabinet would be vandalised and people would replace the P in Puck Man with an F. So he had his name changed to Pac-Man. Back when Pac-Man was released the popular genre of video games was that of space shooters. Asteroids and Space Invaders were the most notable ones as well...

Galaga Year Of Release: 1981 Studio: Namco Description Released in 1981 by Namco, Galaga was actually a sequel to the 1979 smash hit Galaxian also produced by Namco. Galaga would be another huge hit for the guys at Namco and would go on to be one of the highest grossing games of its era. Its popularity was so high that even as gaming moved into the 90’s. Many arcades all over the world would still have a Galaga arcade machine in them. While you can clearly tell that this is a sequel to Galaxian. Galaga made just a ton of...

Bubble Bobble  Year Of Release: 1986 Studio: Taito Description Taito were one of the prominent video game developers of the 1980’s and one of their biggest hits was the game Bubble Bobble which they released in 1986. Bubble Bobble was a huge hit. It just oozed charm, had a great art style and some very catchy music as well. Bubble Bobble is a game that is really part platform, part action and part puzzle game in its design which was a little unusual by 1986 standards. The idea of the game is that we have two little dragons. One is...

Track & Field  Year Of Release: 1983 Studio: Konami Description Track & Field was a huge hit for Konami when it was released in 1983. This was one of those arcade machines that would quite often have a group of people around it watching the acting taking place. An interesting bit of trivia about this game is that in Japan, Track & Field would be an officially licensed 1984 Olympic Games tie in. Track & Field only used buttons, you had two run buttons and one action button. Players would need to hit the run buttons as fast as they...