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.