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Frogger  Year Of Release: 1981 Studio: Konami Description Frogger was developed by Konami and depending on where you lived in the world it was either released by Konami themselves or Sega. The game was a huge success and one of the most popular of the early 80’s that did not involve some kind of spaceship. As far as the arcade cabinet of Frogger goes it was available in both stand up and cocktail form. It used just a joystick for control and needed no “action” buttons. The idea of Frogger was that you needed to help a family of frogs...

Space Invaders Year Of Release: 1979 Studio: Taito Description While Space Invaders was not the first video game ever created you really do have to give it the credit for being the first global smash hit video game. In many ways, Space Invaders changed the whole video game industry. This was one of the very first space shooting games to be made. And at the time it was a very ambitious game with game designer Tomohiro Nishikado having to create specialist software so that he could make the game as the current way of making video games simply was not...

King Of Fighters 94 Year Of Release: 1994 Studio: SNK Description SNK have made many great arcade games over the year, most of which would be ported to their Neo Geo home system. Before King Of Fighters, SNK had success with their Fatal Fury and Art Of Fighting series of fighting games. King Of Fighters would mash these two games together which at the time was a really big deal in the gaming world. Two huge gaming franchises coming together in one game. Keep in mind this was before Capcom would mix its Street Fighter characters with Marvel’s X-Men so...

R-Type Year Of Release: 1987 Studio: Irem Description The first game in the popular shooter franchise, R-Type would be released by Irem in 1987. While Irem started the series over the years, R-Type would be developed and published by many different companies such as Hudson, Nintendo and EA. But when most gamers think of R-Type it’s Irem that comes to mind. This first game was released to huge critical and commercial acclaim and was one of the most popular space shooters of its time. You play the role of a space marine, fighter or whatever you want to call him...

Boulder Dash Year Of Release: 1985 Studio: First Star Software Description Boulder Dash from First Software is a very interesting arcade game to talk about. You see it was the norm in the 1980’s and 1990’s for there to be an arcade game and then weeks, months maybe even a year down the line a version for the home consoles or home computers would be released, but Boulder Dash did things in reverse. You see originally, Boulder Dash was released in 1984 for various homes systems. The next year however a slightly improved version of the game would be released...