• 1982 was the peak year for the golden age of arcade video games as well as the second generation of video game consoles. Many games were released that...
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  • board and card games, wargames, miniatures games, and tabletop role-playing games published in 1982. For video games, see 1982 in video gaming. Ant Wars...
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  • Alien is a 1982 maze video game for the Atari 2600 published by Fox Video Games. The game has the player control a human moving through the hallways of...
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  • higher. By 1982, video games accounted for 87% of the $8.9 billion in commercial games sales in the United States. In 1982, the arcade video game industry's...
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  • second decade in the industry's history. It was a decade of highs and lows for video games. The decade began amidst a boom in the arcade video game business...
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  • In the video game industry, 2025 is expected to see the release of many new video games. The calendar year is divided into four quarters, often abbreviated...
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  • Marvel Games, video games based on Marvel properties released between 1982 and 1985 were handled by Marvel Comics Group, with Marvel video games from 1986...
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  • is a list of video games that multiple video game journalists or magazines have considered to be among the best of all time. The games listed here are...
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  • In the history of video games, the second-generation era refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available...
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  • console video gaming in North America. To a lesser extent, the arcade video game market also weakened as the golden age of arcade video games came to...
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    arcade games, console games, and PC games; further, the latter encompasses LAN games, online games, and browser games. More recently, the video game industry...
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  • Pitfall! is a video game developed by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and released in 1982 by Activision. The player controls Pitfall Harry, who has a...
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  • investigation of violent video games in 1993. March 29 – Louis Gossett Jr., 87, stage and screen actor that voiced the Vortigaunts in Half-Life 2. May 5 –...
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    components and displayed to a video device, typically a monitor, all contained within an enclosed arcade cabinet. Arcade video games are often installed alongside...
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  • list of film adaptations of video games. These include local, national, international, direct-to-video and TV releases, and (in certain cases) online releases...
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    The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes...
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  • Since their inception in the 1970s, video games have often been criticized by some for violent content. Politicians, parents, and other activists have...
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  • The following is a list of the most expensive video games ever developed, with a minimum total cost of US$50 million and sorted by the total cost adjusted...
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  • thousand of them in 1980 (three times that number were produced over the next seven years). Kubey, Craig (1982). The Winners' Book of Video Games. New York:...
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    largest influence in the video game industry, with video games representing a significant part of its economy. Major publishers headquartered in the United States...
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    Sears sold the system as the Tele-Games Video Arcade. Atari rebranded the VCS as the Atari 2600 in November 1982, alongside the release of the Atari...
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  • large volume of unsold games, some which ended up as part of the Atari video game burial in September 1983. On December 7, 1982, Ray Kassar announced that...
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  • consumer feedback of video games. The industry encompasses dozens of job disciplines and thousands of jobs worldwide. The video game industry has grown...
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  • of years in video games that indexes the years in video games pages. Years are annotated with significant events in the history of video games. 1970 –...
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    Video games are a major industry in Japan, and the country is considered one of the most influential in video gaming. Japanese game development is often...
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  • The Hobbit is an illustrated interactive fiction video game released in December 1982 for the ZX Spectrum home computer. Based on the 1937 book The Hobbit...
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  • found in video games since the early days of the industry, and games featuring sexual content can be found on most platforms and can be of any video game...
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  • Argonaut Games PLC is a British video game developer founded in 1982. It was known for the Super NES video game Star Fox and its supporting Super FX chip...
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  • The following is a list of baseball sports video games. All-Star Baseball Backyard Baseball Baseball Simulator 1.000 Baseball Stars Bases Loaded (Moero...
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  • game, Shaken but Not Stirred, had been released in 1982. Since 1983, there have been numerous video games based on the films, Ian Fleming's novels, and...
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