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.

Some facts about Nintendo's Super Mario

In the beginning, Mario was called Jumpman.

First game in which Mario appears: Donkey Kong (1981).

Originally, Mario was a carpenter, not a plumber.

The full name of our hero is Mario Mario.

Mario is voice-acted by Charles Martinet.

Mario has appeared in over two-hundred video games so far.

Mario was named after the landlord of Nintendo of America's office: Mario Seagale.

Nintendo's game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto was inspired by Alice in Wonderland when he created Mario.

Mario wears a hat because Shigeru Miyamoto had difficulty in drawing the hair.

Mario is the character who has sold more games throughout history.

Our hero actually becomes “Super Mario” only when he eats the mushroom that grows and gives powers such as breaking blocks of brick.

Twenty Nintendo facts

1. Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards.
2. “Nintendo” means “leave luck to heaven.”
3. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel.
4. Nintendo established a multitude of electronic companies such as Panasonic
5. They currently own the majority share in the Seattle Mariners 
6. As of October 2, 2008, Nintendo has sold over 470 million hardware units and 2.7 billion software units.
   According to Nintendo's Touch! Generations website, the name "Nintendo" translated from Japanese to English means "Leave luck to Heaven".
7. During the production of Super Mario Bros. 3 there were plans to have a Centaur Mario.

10 interesting facts about video games

1. In 1971, Computer Space, created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, was the first commercially-sold, coin-operated video game.
2. The first console to have games available in the form of add-on cartridges was the Fairchild Channel F console, introduced in August 1976.
3. In 2005 Sony hired painters which draw 7 walls in different towns of USA as an advertisement of Playstation Portable.
4. The electronic systems used to play video games are known as platforms.
5. The commercial success of Pong led numerous other companies to develop Pong clones and their own systems, spawning the video game industry.
6. Producers of Sega’s Space Channel 5 had a court examination with one lady, because of the character in the game was very alike her look - of course, she lost the hearing.
7. Thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of 18 represent a significantly greater portion of the game-playing population (30%) than boys age 17 or younger (23%).
8. The president of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime worked in Pizza Hut (this is what means “being smart”!)
9. On March 6, 2009, Nintendo announced that it had shipped its 100-millionth Nintendo DS system.
10. The score record of all times in Pac-Man is 3,333,360 points.