Games arcade

Arcade is the generic term for video game machines available in public amusement parks, shopping centers, restaurants, bars, or specialized recreation rooms. They are similar to pinballs and casino slots, but because they are not gambling or betting - as they are based on the skill of the player - usually do not have the legal limitations of these.

A video game or video game is an electronic game in which one or more people interact, through a controller, with a device that displays video images.1 This electronic device, known generically as "platform", can be a Computer, an arcade machine, a game console or a portable device (a mobile phone, for example). Video games are, year after year, one of the main industries of art and entertainment.

10 Games Arcade

1
Street Fighter (1987)

2
Tetris (1988)

3
Street Fighter II (1991) The World Warrior

4
Pac-Man (1980)

5
Golden Axe (1989)

6
Ghosts n' Goblins (1985)

7
Outrun (1986)

8
Double Dragon (1987)

9
Arkanoid (1986)

10
Donkey Kong (1981)

These are some of the arcades games that in their time were the best but unfortunately those times were lost, with so much technology now these games are nothing ... haha

The huge popularity of arcade video games between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s brought about a dramatic increase in sales of these arcade machines. This period of video game history was christened the golden age of arcade video games. Although the exact duration of this stage continues to be a matter of debate, there is a consensus around the key moments of the debate, including the premiere of Space Invaders in 1978 and the introduction of vector display technology in 1979. The golden era lasted until 1985, when videogame consoles were introduced as portable NES. The 2012 film Wreck-It Ralph tried to pay homage to this period and to many video game sagas that emerged in this era as Pac-Man or Super Mario.

Due to the profitability and advancement of technology in consoles and computers that have come to have superior hardware to the arcade, the possibility of playing online, the proliferation of cybercafes and other reasons, arcade machines have been losing popularity until almost disappearing , This has forced companies specialized in the sector, such as Midway, to enter the consoles sector and stop producing arcades. Japan is currently the only country where arcades are still successful and launching titles and new machines on the market today. However, the large number of nostalgics of the genre has led many people to build their own machines (existing diverse communities and dedicated web pages), rehabilitating frameworks or creating new ones, rarely using electronic brains from older machines, more commonly by enabling a computer To simulate them (emulators). They can also be found in video game museums.