Influence of Arcade Industry Saviors

It is a well-known fact that Nintendo has made the ''Play-Choice.''  "Play-Choice," which offers you the opportunity to play all sorts of NES games at Arcade did quite well.  When Nintendo made the decision to get concrete Super Nintendo Entertainment System titles, they offered only a limited release and then stopped.  Despite this fact, some companies did well, meanwhile others did not.

The large successes really lasted only until the middle of 1990's.  Luckily, around 1997 Konami turned out to be a ''Savior,'' thanks to their highly unique and innovative titles.  Titles such as ''Dance, Dance Revolution,'' it is important to note that this game attracted an absolutely different variety of gamers, along with a lot of non-gamers back into Arcades.

The problem with these ''Arcade Industry Saviors'' is that they relied so much on the mainstream attention, unlike the ''Golden Age'' where each game was given a lot of attention from avid gamers.

After a couple of years,  DDR (Direct Disk Recorder) players remained the only gamers in the Arcade Industry, and Capcom started getting more attention from their 2D fighter/Marvel Comic Book games, the ''Marvel Vs.'' series which appeared at the same time.

Best of Arcades in 1990-x

Fortunately after the "Great Video Game Crash of 1983,'' one of the greatest and most popular games of all time, Super Mario Bros. came out on the much-loved console that is the NES.

The Arcade Industry tried hard to improve its financial wounds during the middle and the end of 1980's.  To tell the truth, some went out quite decently with such games as Atari's Gauntlet, and Marble Madness. However, some went out, not so well, such as Capcom's Final Fight and Capcom's Street Fighter.

Nevertheless, another great change happened in 1991, when you began to hear about games like Street Fighter II.  One of the most Capcom's most famous genre games got numerous gamers back into the Arcades.  They also had the incredibly praised game, Alien Vs. Predator: The Dungeons & Dragons brawler series as well as many others.

At the time when other companies like Konami "were most definitely not slouches," as they delivered classic titles like TMNT, X-Men and The Simpson's, games like Mortal Kombat came about as well.  (Together with different racing games & shorter titles.)

Golden Age of Video Arcade Games (1980-x)

The 1980's were the most prosperous years for the Arcade industry.  Games such as Asteroids, Atari and, Namco's favorite Pac-Man, appeared during that time.  The arcade Industry in the United States went on a total boom, as most of the games were extremely popular (specifically games like Pac-Man.)  The industry, consequently, has made plenty money and "[its] financial success is what invented the thought of Video Games going better than Movie's Box Office Grosses."

During this time, the console industry was far from its success; the beginning of 1980's was evidently the ''Golden Age'' for the Arcade Industry.

It goes without saying that the incontestable beauty of the industry's popularity lies in love of the people, regardless of age and social levels, a lot of people played arcade games no matter who they were, young kids or adults.

Video Arcade Games Ancestors of 20-th Century

More than a hundred years ago, way back when the Civil War was finished, humanity got to know about a new invention called as the "Penny Arcade."  The Penny Arcade had basic attractions such as test your strength machines and peep shows.

It is no secret that the Penny Arcade attracted a lot of attention through out the years, including the turn of the century into the 1900's.  Things really got going during the 1920's - 1930's, during the Great Depression "Film Shorts" did a really great job at providing entertainment. 

For all these years it had been keeping Americans from more horrible woes however, the Arcades did quite a decent job too.  Thanks to an invention called Pinball, made by the man with the surname of Gottlieb, people got interested in playing an ''easy to learn, difficult to master'' game.  Even after the World War-driven fear of the US population ended, Pinball games remained to be an incredibly popular source of entertainment.

It should not be much of a surprise that all that changed in 1974, when Nolan Bushnell invented a tiny little jewel called Pong.  Despite the fact that Pong is not the first electronic Video game ever made, it did become the first game to attract Video Games into the Arcade Industry.