The classic 80s arcade games we loved the most. Every week we poll people around the office to see what makes them tick. This week we asked which games were their favorites back in the 1980s, when. November 7, 2019 August 1, 2020 2 Comments on 80s arcade racing games – my top 5 The 80s are well-known for a lot of things. While the Western home console market was crashing, arcades became a huge cultural mecca for teenagers and cabinets were chirping and whirring to. Sort: Relevant Newest # arcade # video games # punk # frustrated # arcade game arcade # video games # punk # frustrated # arcade game # game # retro # arcade # play # geek.
The era of the video arcade game is ushered in with Computer Space in 1971, but few really notice. Pong rights that wrong the following year, and a phenomenon is born. Games like Tank, Gun Fight, Breakout and Sea Wolf prove that video games are no flash in the pan, but Space Invaders takes the craze to a galactic new level. Meanwhile, in the non-video world, a hockey fan turns his passion into a year-round sport with Air Hockey, and Whac-a-Mole lets players work out life’s little frustrations with a padded mallet. The Who’s “Pinball Wizard” launches a new pinball craze, as celebrities from The Harlem Globetrotters to KISS grace the machines’ backglass and playfields. But by the end of the decade, video is clearly the new king, and Asteroids wears the crown.
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Thanks to the kind generosity of Wolfgang Nottebaum, managing director of Video Klein Automatenbau GmbH, we can provide ROMs for several German video poker games. The ROMs are freely available for personal use. Most of the games come from Video Klein’s popular Witch Card series. Notably, Witch Strike is one of the many games designed to comply with the letter of laws banning video poker games by eschewing playing card graphics and gambling terminology.
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The ROMs are available for download from our ROMs page. All the games have internal artwork that shows the control panel button lamps. The buttons are clickable if you run MAME in windowed mode with mouse capture disabled. For games that require initial setup, instructions are provided on the download pages.