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  • Defender Arcade Game (1981)
    Feb 01

    Defender Arcade Game (1981)

    Defender is an arcade video game developed and released by Williams Electronics in February 1981.[1] A shooting game featuring two-dimensional (2D) graphics, the game is set on a fictional planet where the player must defeat waves of invading aliens while protecting astronauts. Development was led by Eugene Jarvis, a pinball programmer at Williams; Defenderwas Jarvis' first video game project and

  • Gorf Arcade Game (February 1981)
    Feb 01

    Gorf Arcade Game (February 1981)

    Gorf is an arcade game released in 1981 by Midway Mfg., whose name was advertised as an acronym for "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force". It is a multiple-mission fixed shooter with five distinct modes of play, essentially making it five games in one. It is well known for its use of synthesized speech, a new feature at the time.

  • Punch-Out!! Arcade Game (February 1984)
    Feb 01

    Punch-Out!! Arcade Game (February 1984)

    Punch-Out!! (パンチアウト!! Panchi-Auto!!?) is a boxing arcade game by Nintendo,[8] released 1984. It was the first in a series of successfulPunch-Out!! games that produced an arcade sequel known as Super Punch-Out!!, a spin-off of the series titled Arm Wrestling, a highly popular version for the NES originally known as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, and Super Punch-Out!! for the SNES.

  • Space Duel Arcade Game (February 1982)
    Feb 01

    Space Duel Arcade Game (February 1982)

    Space Duel is an arcade game released in 1982 by Atari Inc. It is a direct descendant of the original Asteroids, with asteroids replaced by colorful geometric shapes like cubes, diamonds, and spinning pinwheels. Space Duel is the first and only multi-player interactive vector game by Atari. When Asteroids Deluxe did not sell well, this game was taken off the shelf and released to moderate success.

  • MAME 0.1 Released
    Feb 05

    MAME 0.1 Released

    MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms.[1] The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten.

  • garetmax's Sit-Down Arcade Cabinet
    Feb 12

    garetmax's Sit-Down Arcade Cabinet

    My Sit-Down Arcade Cabinet

  • Gregzkij's - Gregzkij
    Feb 13

    Gregzkij's - Gregzkij

    Gregzkij

  • allsyop's Avengers Quad Pedestal
    Feb 19

    allsyop's Avengers Quad Pedestal

    Avengers Quad Pedestal  

  • Feb 22

    Xbox JP Release (2002)

    The Xbox was released on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia and Europe in 2002.[2] It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market. The sixth-generation console competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and the Nintendo GameCube. It was the first console produced by an American company since the Atari Jaguar ceased production in 1996. Source

  • TerryRed's PinKadia!
    Feb 22

    TerryRed's PinKadia!

    The Ultimate virtual Pinball / Arcade / PC combo cabinet!    

  • GameEx Forum launches
    Feb 26

    GameEx Forum launches

    www.gameex.info

  • Mar 01

    N64 EU Release (1997)

    The console was first released in Japan on June 23, 1996. The North American version of the Nintendo 64 officially launched on September 29, 1996. It was launched with just two games in the United States, Pilotwings 64 and Super Mario 64. In 1994, prior to the launch, Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln emphasized the quality of first-party games, saying "... we're convinced that a few gre

  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Arcade
    Mar 01

    Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Arcade

    March 1985 The game takes the original gameplay, graphics, sounds, from the first arcade game and updates them to fit the new movie. Vector objects are now much more noticeably detailed, and the asterisk-particle shots from Star Wars are replaced with vector versions. The game was the third Star Wars arcade game; Return of the Jedi came out the previous year.

  • Mappy Arcade Game (March 1983)
    Mar 01

    Mappy Arcade Game (March 1983)

    Mappy (マッピー Mappī?) is a 1983 arcade game by Namco. In the United States, it was distributed by Bally/Midway. Mappy is a side-scrolling platform game that features cartoon-like animals, primarily cats and mice. The game's main character itself is a mouse. Mappy runs on Namco Super Pac-Man hardware, modified to support horizontal scrolling. The name "Mappy" is likely derived from mappo, a Japanese

  • AC/DC Pinball (March 1, 2012)
    Mar 01

    AC/DC Pinball (March 1, 2012)

    AC/DC is a pinball machine manufactured by Stern Pinball based on the Australian band of the same name. Designed by Steve Ritchie, it was released on March 1, 2012. The machine was confirmed in January 2012 with the release of a teaser video showcasing the game, along with the twelve songs involved in its soundtrack.[3] Each song is the subject of a mode, from which players can work towards a mult

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