Facts about arcade games
- An arcade game is usually installed in public businesses such as video arcades, restaurants, bowling alleys, laundromats, college campuses, dormitories, shopping malls, movie theatres, supermarkets, truck stops, airports, bar/pubs, hotels, and even bakeries.
- An arcade game is a coin operated machine.
- Most arcade games are electro-mechanical games, video games, redemption games, pinball machines, and merchandisers (such as claw cranes).
- The earliest coin-operated pinball machines were made in the 1930s.
- In 1966, Sega introduced an arcade game called Periscope.
- Throughout the 1970s, electro-mechanical arcade games were gradually replaced by electronic video games, following the release of Pong in 1972.
- Some popular arcade games were: Space Invaders (1978), Galaxian (1979), Pac-Man (1980), Battlezone (1980) and Donkey Kong (1981).
- The golden age of arcade games was from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.
- Today video arcades are still popular in Japan.
- Virtually all modern arcade games make extensive use of solid state electronics and integrated circuits.
- Donkey Kong (1981) is an arcade game developed by Nintendo.
- Donkey Kong was the debut of Jumpman (now know as Mario) in world's video game.
