In the early 1980s, arcades were the coolest hangouts with their blinking lights and electronic beeps. One of these arcade machines is starting to turn heads: Pole Position. Developed by Namco, this game is about to set the bar for all future racing games. The game puts you in the driver’s seat … Read more
Known as one of the first strategy video games, Missile Command is an arcade game developed and published by Atari in 1980. The game involves taking out an endless barrage of missiles by allowing the player to control the counter-missiles to stop and bomb the enemy fire before it hits the ground. … Read more
Konami is particularly known for developing classic video game franchises like Metal Gear and Castlevania, but there is another iconic game in their lineup that people didn’t even know that the company owned when it was released in 1981, and that game is called Frogger. In Frogger, one player takes control of … Read more
Although it was not the first game released commercially, Pong is considered by many as the one that launched video games into the mainstream. Without Pong, the video game industry that we know and love today wouldn’t even exist, or if it did exist, it wouldn’t be as successful now. In Pong, … Read more