The Arcade Games:

We all remember the old and retro arcade games such as Pac-Man, Pong, Space Invaders, and many others; and if you don't, go and play them!

I already talked about the first arcade game and the first mass produced arcade in my first post. Today I'm going to continue what I started.

As I said in my first post, The Galaxy Game, which was created in 1971, was the first arcade to exist.
After that we have Computer Space, which was the first mass produced arcade game. It was released in 1971.

One year after the release of Computer Space, the famous game company Atari released their most known game, Pong, which was a complete success. This was on of the most successful arcade games during the 1970's and it helped to show people that games had.

Pong - the video game arcade

URL:http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Pong

Gunfight (1975) was the first Japanese arcade game to be sold in America. The game emulated the figths typical from western movies and it was for two players.
The new version created by Midway was the first game to ever use a microprocessor.

Breakout (1976) is US game by Atari. It is part of "games geography" due to that it was created by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (founders of apple). This was their last game before they decided to leave games and go for computers.
Many remakes and new versions of this game were made, but the best one and most famous one is called Arkanoid. 

 Arkanoid - remake from Breakout by Taito

URL: http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=Arkanoid-23673

One of the most important arcade games by far is Space Invaders (1978). This game from Taito literary turned all of Japan mad when it came out. 

The Japanese government needed to duplicate the fabrication of the coins for this arcade game due to that they ended up having a shortage of them.

Inspired by the success of Space invaders, Atari released Asteroids (1979). It was a success in the US, but nothing close to the Space invaders' madness. 

Space Invaders - video game by Taito

URL: http://spaceinvaders.mosaic.free.fr/

And last but not worst, the most famous arcade game of history, Pac-Man (1980). 

This game was designed by Tor Iwatani for Nancom, and it was based on an old Japanese tale.

It became so famous that it became the icon of the 1980's and of games. 

There are millions of new versions of this game, and after so many years, this simple game is still addicting and fun to play.

Pac-Man - Nancom's arcade video game

URL: http://gamesdbase.com/game/sinclair-zx-spectrum/pac-man.aspx

There are a few more "important" arcade games which I didn't talk about in this post, but I think that the ones I talked about will do the job.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them and I'll answer them as well as I can.