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by MarkVanDiggelen

Arcades have been popular with children ever since the early 1980's and their popularity is still great. The earliest arcade games featured gorillas hurling barrels to futuristic computer porgams riding lighted cycles. Many have dreamt about being part of these wonderful new worlds over the past few decades and smashed buttons and jerked joysticks trying to win at these games. These are the forerunners to all of the amazing titles that you can find these days. But let's get nostalgic for a little while and look back at these classics.

If you think about the idea of a plumber scaling a construction site to save a woman from the grips of a barrel hurling gorilla, you might sound a little crazy, but it made Donkey Kong a hit. The quest to save this woman from the evil gorilla has been taken very seriously by gamers for a good numbers of years and there have been loads of money spent on trying to free her. The game was actually the idea that led to Mario and probably the most popular console game of all times. This plumber is single-handedly for destroying the good grades of kids the wolrd over without even breaking a sweat.

A pizza shaped icon with a slice missing being chased by ghosts while trying to eat up all of the pellets in a maze. The first sentence explains everything in describing the greatest arcade game in the history of the world and the most iconic character the video game industry has ever seen. Merchandise, spin off games and countless renditions have stapled this as the cornerstone of how to build and market a game to the public.

The controls of the hero within this game were the biggest innovation to video games at the time of its release. Step up Robotron 2084 There was no buttons and only two joysticks to work with. One joystick walked you around the entire platform while the other joystick fired your weapon at robots out to kill you. The whole time during this massive catastrophe off killing every robot imaginable, you had to rescue hostages from early demise. This game was incredibly hard and found that you would be more excited about surviving a level rather than passing it.

Aliens attacking Earth. Space Invaders. The only hope is a single ship with a single gun to destroy the enemy and restore peace to this planet. Simple premises are nice in video games and this was the cream of the crop. This game alone spawned the "shoot-em up" genre and set the bar high in doing it as well.

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