• Space Invaders is a 1980 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 as a port of Taito's 1978 arcade game of the...
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  • Space Invaders is a 1980 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Atari. It is based on Taito's 1978 arcade video game of the same name. It...
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  • Space Invaders is a 1978 shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Taito for arcades. It was released in Japan in April 1978, and released overseas...
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  • Asteroids is a 1979 multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. The player controls a single spaceship in...
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  • Centipede is a 1981 fixed shooter video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. Designed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was one of the...
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  • Kaboom! is a 1981 action video game developed by Larry Kaplan and published by Activision for the Atari 2600. The game involves a Mad Bomber dropping...
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  • refer to: Space Invaders (Atari 2600 video game), a 1980 release of the original arcade for the Atari 2600 Space Invaders (Atari 8-bit video game), a 1980...
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    Space Invaders is a fixed shooter video game released in 1978 by Taito. It was designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, who was inspired by other media such as...
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  • variations of Taito's Space Invaders and Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids. First inspired by Space Invaders, he created a similar game with new gameplay mechanics...
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  • Battlezone is a 1980 first-person shooter tank combat video game developed and published by Atari for arcades. The player controls a tank which is attacked...
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    including the Atari Video Computer System (VCS). Coupled with rapid growth in the golden age of arcade video games, including Space Invaders and Pac-Man...
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    Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari was a key player in...
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  • was Namco's answer to Space Invaders, a similar space shooter released the previous year by rival developer Taito. Space Invaders was a sensation in Japan...
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  • arcade games. Space Invaders, the first "killer app" arcade game to be ported, was released in 1980 for the Atari 2600, though earlier Atari-published arcade...
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  • Atari 50 compiles over 100 video games made for arcades, standalone handhelds, and game consoles, specifically Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit computers...
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  • to Atari 8-bit computers was worked on, but not published. Sunsoft ported Xenophobe to the NES. The Commodore 64 port was done by Microplay. The game was...
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  • were ideal targets. The Atari 2600 version of Space Invaders, released in 1980, was considered the killer app for home video game consoles, helping to quadruple...
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  • video games printed in newspapers and magazines and aired on television. The Space Invaders Tournament held by Atari in 1980 was the first video game...
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  • Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During...
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  • Tempest is a 1981 tube shooter arcade video game by Atari, Inc., designed and programmed by Dave Theurer. It takes place on a three-dimensional surface...
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  • video game was Taito's arcade game Space Invaders, while the best-selling home system was the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS). Space Invaders was...
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    Gun Fight (category Atari 8-bit computer games)
    to the Bally Astrocade video game console as a built-in game in 1977 and later the Atari 8-bit computers. Western Gun is a single-screen shooter where...
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  • highest-grossing video game was Taito's arcade game Space Invaders and the best-selling home system was the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS). Space Invaders was...
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  • Frogger (redirect from Grogger (video game))
    best-selling Atari 2600 games. By 2005, 20 million copies of its various home video game incarnations had been sold worldwide. The objective of the game is to...
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    The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS)...
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  • The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985...
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    arms. Star Trek was ported to the Commodore 64, TI-99/4A, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 5200, Atari 2600, VIC-20, ColecoVision, and Apple II. The player is...
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    The Atari Flashback is a line of dedicated video game consoles produced since 2004, currently designed, produced, published and marketed by AtGames under...
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  • system was Nintendo's Game & Watch. The Atari VCS (later called the Atari 2600) also grew in popularity with a port of Space Invaders and support from new...
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    Combat, Space Invaders, Lunar Lander, Galaxian, and Asteroids. Notable early arcade video games of the early-to-mid-1970s include Computer Space (1971)...
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