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Re: Space Race (non-) progress
01/19/10 12:03 AM
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>> I love that nearly all these games date from before I was born (same year as Space
>> Invaders). I don't understand my own interest.
>Me, I like the history, and am just wondering what I missed!
imo, the history of late 1960s through 1980 arcade years was seeing how the game technology evolved from one year to another. The EM hardware games in arcades was still pretty strong till about 1976 and then one could take notice how video game technology was replacing many of the mechanical and EM hardware games. Pinball was still very strong in arcades through 1970s imo so that part was not affected when going to various arcade centers.
It was that fans of EM games made by Allied Leisure, Chicago Coins, or Midway could expect that era to eventually come to an end by 1977 since video games were a bit more diversified from assorted pong clones, Breakout, Tank, Computer Space, various baseball games.
One could observe the progress by counting numer of video games in an arcade versus mechanical/EM type non-video games in the same arcade. imo by 1977, video games outnumbered the amount of EM hardware games in many of the arcades here in SoCal markets.
For those that enjoy the challenge of trying to play a game with one credit for hours on end, 1970s was not a good decade because the video game technology was not there to support lengthy game play. The mind set was a single player should not be playing a video game on a single credit no more than 5 minutes at most.
As far as the arcade experiences of having to wait in line to play more popular video games, or observing how good some game players were on some games 1970s and 1980s was no different.
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