Arcade Era
Space Invaders (1978): How Taito’s Shooter Launched the Arcade Boom
How Tomohiro Nishikado built Space Invaders, why the aliens speed up, the yen-coin shortage myth, Midway's US release and the Atari 2600 port that sold consoles.
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Arcade Era
The Golden Age of Arcade Games: How Coin-Op Machines Took Over the World
How Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and friends built the late-1970s arcade boom, why it faded, and how fighting games revived arcades.