Top 10 Arcade Games Of The 1970s
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For this list, we’re looking at the best games released to and played in arcades between 1970 and 1979. These are the games that made a significant impact on popular culture and the video gaming medium, helping to influence bigger, better games of the future.
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Good list, that Pong console is really hard for gamers nowadays. Along with some of these arcade cabinets. In fact the Space Invaders cabinet had a version with nothing but Buttons to shoot and move if I remember.
omg 2015 vote up I dont want to be the one break 2016
Speaking of pip-boy games, where is the damn Missile Command in this list?!!!
I have to say that the 70's also had some of the hardest games of all time.
i have space invaders and pong on my ti83+ calculator
They use the same audio and video from asteroids for their top 10 arcade games of all time! Lol!
My dad had a Pong at home. Just throwing that out there.
I've played Space Invaders when I was a kid. Hmm I'm 19 now.
Galaga is number 5 right? never heard of galaxia
The 70s produced few arcade games, and began the golden age of arcade games in 1979.
good list.
one of my personal favourites was 'gun fight,' (aka 'boot hill') and i pumped many quarters into atari's 'football.' midway's 'haunted house' always caught my eye, or anything with a light gun, lol.
where's satan's hollow
You need to decide if you are ranking popularity, relevance or quality. Space invaders and pong were the most "Important", but Galaxian and lunar lander were much better games.
Lol why does every 70's video game take place in space?
What about Tetris? When was that created?
ASTEROIDS
does anyone know if you can get these games to use on ps3? thanks.
#10 Death Race (1976)
#9 Tank (1974)
#8 Sea Wolf (1976)
#7 Lunar Lander (1979)
#6 Breakout (1976)
#5 Computer Space (1971)
#4 Galaxian (1979)
#3 ? (1979)
#2 ? (1972)
#1 ? (1978)
The only games from the 70s that are still playable today are Galaxians and Lunar Lander. The rest are way too medieval.
I can do this games with paint (microsoft program)
Aesthetically, Computer Space will never be topped.
pong is the best
I can't argue with the list, and glad "Death Race" was here, as it was the GTA of it's day for arousing (unfounded) concerns. I think "Galaxian" is the greatness; it's just so colorful and beepy bloopy!
"Video games of the 70's"? A bunch of blips on a black screen. Biiiiiiiiig deal.
In the 70's,it was the mechanical arcade games that were the thing!!!
Pong introduced me to video arcade games. Also loved Battle Zone, Outlaw (an early shoot em up from Atari), Space Invaders (which had color by using colored plastic strips over the monitor) and Galaxian.
I was there at the start. There was a special feeling you got playing these games as a kid excited by technology, back in the 70`s.
Nowadays a video game is the implementation of a concept: you are rarely aware of the system generating the effect. But, back in the days when computing was primitive, graphics were blocky, and sound that actually sounded like it was electronically generated, the experience of gaming was like…communing with a computer, with electronic circuitry; the crackle of the cathode ray screen: a whiff of ozone. You felt like a space cadet.
I'm a little disappointed that Gremlin's "Depth Charge" (1977) — kind of an inverse "Sea Wolf"! — didn't make your list, but that's all right. the games you picked were all pretty good!
That sound sea wolf makes used to scare the absolute hell outta me.
Space Invaders is likely my favorite.
galaxian came out in 1980 wtf?
What about Sega's Heavyweight Champ [1976]?
That's Japan's the first fighting game in history!
Missile Command? The original Punch Out?