Talk:Timeline of video arcade game history
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[edit] Question
"featuring to this day the highest quality use of the movie background technique."
Wouldn't that be Resident evil Remake and Resident evil 0 both for the gamecube?
[edit] What, no 1984 or 1985?
I would say that 1984/1985 is one of the most important milestones in arcade game history. This is the time that 16-bit processors (e.g. 68000) began to be used in games for the first time, resulting in games like Marble Madness (1984), Paperboy (1984), Nemesis/Gradius (1985), Gauntlet (1985) and Space Harrier (1985). These games were head and shoulders above anything else around at the time 87.80.240.166 12:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Karate Champ?
Mortal Combat is mentioned as well as street fighter. Long before them was Karate Champ, As per Wkipedia "1984 arcade game developed by Technos Japan Corporation for Data East. It is one of the first fighting games and was the first to use today's common side-perspective. It is still considered to this day as the most balanced fighting game ever made"
[edit] Getting better but...
Missing pieces: Asteroids (introduced vector graphics, unlimited extra lives, putting initials on the high score, and the first game to have a revolutionary survival strategy - i.e. hunting the little saucer); Dragon's Lair (a sensation when it appeared for the cartoon graphics - though the game sucked). Also I was curious about the transition between pay-for-time to arcade survival and then back again. Clearly Space Invaders was the main transition point the first time (you bought time or fuel with a credit in most, but not all, games before SI, but it became the norm afterwards) - but when did it start to go back? Or did it really? Thanks to the real historians here who might be able to update with greater accuracy. Kgdickey 13:09, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Only knowledge up to 1999?
Hi all, please give more information on the millenium arcade games. I am looking for information on what the newest arcades are and was surprised that there is no mention of newer games here. Please help.
[edit] Periscope 1964?
Should Sega's Periscope be listed here? According to this article:
http://segaforce.net/content/viewarticle.php?articleID=48
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- Sega's first locally produced arcade game, Periscope, was released in Japan in 1966. It was an instant hit, and gained rapid worldwide popularity in a fairly short amount of time. A submarine combat game, it allowed players to "stand at the con" of a military submarine and sink as many enemy vessels as they could. It even included a custom periscope controller, similar to a real periscope, so players could sight their targets just like real sub commanders did. Mind you, this was a electromechanical game, since that was all the available technology could produce at the time
For starters, the Wikipedia article disagrees on the date (claiming 1964). For another thing, it's electromechanical (something that, unless I'm mistaken, has existed since 1900, and is considered a different technology from video arcades).
