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91 relations: Acorn Atom, Acorn Computers, Activision, Apple II, Arcade game, Arcade system board, Atari, Atari, Inc., Battlezone (1980 video game), Berzerk (video game), Blue Sky Rangers, Bonus stage, Boxing (1980 video game), Broderbund, Bug-Byte, Cinematronics, Computer Bismarck, Crazy Climber, Cutscene, Data East, DECO Cassette System, Dragster (video game), Edu-Ware, Electronic Games, Fishing Derby, Game & Watch, GamesRadar+, Golden age of arcade video games, Gunpei Yokoi, HAL Laboratory, Handheld electronic game, Home computer, Human Engineered Software, Infocom, Intellivision, Ken Arnold, Killer application, Liquid-crystal display, List of best-selling video games, List of Game of the Year awards, List of maze video games, Mascot, Mattel, Midway Games, Mindscape, Missile Command, Mystery House, Namco, Namco Pac-Man, Nihon Bussan, ..., Nintendo, Olympic Decathlon, Pac-Man, Phoenix (video game), Platform game, Player character, Power-up, Prima Games, Rally-X, Rogue (video game), Roguelike, Scrolling, Sierra Entertainment, Sinclair Research, Sir-Tech, Sirius Software, Space Invaders, Space Panic, Star Castle, Stern (game company), Strategic Simulations, Stratovox, Sunsoft, Tandy Corporation, The Prisoner, The Prisoner (video game), Track & Field (video game), TRS-80 Color Computer, TV Guide, United Kingdom, United States Army, Universal Entertainment Corporation, Vector graphics, Video game console, Video gaming in the United States, Wizard of Wor, Yars' Revenge, Zork, Zork I, ZX80, 1UP.com. Expand index (41 more) »
Acorn Atom
The Acorn Atom is a home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd from 1980 to 1982, when it was replaced by the BBC Micro.
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Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978.
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Activision
Activision Publishing, Inc. is an American video game publisher.
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Apple II
The Apple II (stylized as Apple.
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Arcade game
An arcade game or coin-op is a coin-operated entertainment machine typically installed in public businesses such as restaurants, bars and amusement arcades.
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Arcade system board
An arcade system board is a dedicated computer system created for the purpose of running video arcade games.
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Atari
Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972, currently by Atari Interactive, a subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA.
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Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
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Battlezone (1980 video game)
Battlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat arcade game from Atari, Inc. released in November 1980.
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Berzerk (video game)
Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter arcade game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago.
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Blue Sky Rangers
The Blue Sky Rangers is a group of Intellivision game programmers who previously worked for Mattel in the early 1980s.
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Bonus stage
A bonus stage (also known as a bonus level or bonus round) is a special level within a video game designed to reward the player or players, and typically allows the player to collect extra points or power-ups.
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Boxing (1980 video game)
Boxing is an Atari 2600 video game interpretation of the sport of boxing developed by Activision programmer Bob Whitehead.
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Broderbund
Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software and productivity tools.
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Bug-Byte
Bug-Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford chemistry graduates.
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Cinematronics
Cinematronics Incorporated was a pioneering arcade game developer that had its heyday in the era of vector display games.
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Computer Bismarck
Computer Bismarck is a computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) in 1980.
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Crazy Climber
is a coin-operated arcade game produced by Nichibutsu in 1980.
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Cutscene
A cutscene or event scene (sometimes in-game cinematic or in-game movie) is a sequence in a video game that is not interactive, breaking up the gameplay.
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Data East
, also abbreviated as DECO, was a Japanese video game and electronic engineering company.
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DECO Cassette System
DECO Cassette System loading screen The DECO Cassette System was introduced in December by Data East.
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Dragster (video game)
Dragster, released in 1980 for the Atari 2600, is the first video game developed by Activision.
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Edu-Ware
Edu-Ware Services, Inc. was an educational and entertainment software publisher established in 1979 by Sherwin Steffin and Steven Pederson It was known for its adventure games, role-playing video games, and flight simulators for the Apple II family of computers.
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Electronic Games
Electronic Games was the first dedicated video game magazine published in the United States and ran from October 15, 1981 to 1997 under different titles.
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Fishing Derby
Fishing Derby is an Atari 2600 fishing video game written by David Crane and published by Activision in 1980.
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Game & Watch
Game & Watch (Gēmu & Uotchi; called Tricotronic in West Germany and Austria) is a line of handheld electronic games produced by Nintendo from 1980 to 1991.
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GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ is an entertainment website dedicated to video game-related news, previews and reviews, that is owned by Future Publishing (a subsidiary of Future plc).
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Golden age of arcade video games
The golden age of arcade video games was the era when arcade video games entered pop culture and became a dominant cultural force.
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Gunpei Yokoi
, sometimes transliterated Gumpei Yokoi, was a Japanese video game designer.
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HAL Laboratory
HAL Laboratory, Inc. is a Japanese video game developer founded on 21 February 1980.
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Handheld electronic game
Handheld electronic game(s) are very small, portable devices for playing interactive electronic games, often miniaturized versions of video games.
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Home computer
Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming common during the 1980s.
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Human Engineered Software
Human Engineered Software (HES, also known as HesWare) was an American home computer software and hardware developer/publisher during the 1980s, who concentrated on the Commodore 64 and the Atari 8-bit.
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Infocom
Infocom was a software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that produced numerous works of interactive fiction.
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Intellivision
The Intellivision is a home video game console released by Mattel Electronics in 1979.
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Ken Arnold
Kenneth Cutts Richard Cabot Arnold is an American computer programmer well known as one of the developers of the 1980s dungeon-crawling video game Rogue, for his contributions to the original Berkeley (BSD) distribution of Unix, for his books and articles about C and C++ (e.g. his 1980s–1990s Unix Review column, "The C Advisor"), and his high-profile work on the Java platform.
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Killer application
In marketing terminology, a killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, a gaming console, software, a programming language, a software platform, or an operating system.
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Liquid-crystal display
A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals.
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List of best-selling video games
This is a list of the best-selling video games of all time.
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List of Game of the Year awards
Game of the Year (abbreviated GotY) is a title awarded by various gaming publications to a deserving game.
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List of maze video games
Maze game is a video game genre description first used by journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field was a maze.
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Mascot
A mascot is any person, animal, or object thought to bring luck, or anything used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team, society, military unit, or brand name.
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Mattel
Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945 with headquarters in El Segundo, California.
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Midway Games
Midway Games Inc. (formerly Midway Manufacturing and commonly known as Midway) was an American video game developer and publisher.
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Mindscape
Mindscape, Inc. was an American video game developer and publisher based in Novato, California.
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Missile Command
Missile Command is a 1980 arcade game developed and published by Atari, Inc. and licensed to Sega for European release.
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Mystery House
Mystery House is an adventure game released by On-Line Systems in.
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Namco
is a Japanese corporation that operates game centers and theme parks, but is best known for its previous identity as a video game developer and publisher.
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Namco Pac-Man
The Namco Pac-Man was an 8-bit arcade game system board that was first used by Namco in 1980; the second and third games to run on it, Rally-X and New Rally-X, were modified to support a larger color palette and scrolling.
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Nihon Bussan
Nihon Bussan Co., Ltd. (日本物産株式会社 Nihon Bussan Kabushikigaisha) was a Japanese video game manufacturer.
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Nintendo
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.
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Olympic Decathlon
Olympic Decathlon is a sports game written by Timothy W. Smith for the TRS-80 and published in 1980 by Microsoft.
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Pac-Man
, stylized as PAC-MAN, is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan as Puck Man in May 1980.
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Phoenix (video game)
Phoenix is an outer space-themed, fixed shooter video game similar to Taito's Space Invaders and released in 1980.
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Platform game
A platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre and subgenre of action game.
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Player character
A player character (also known as PC and playable character) is a fictional character in a role-playing game or video game whose actions are directly controlled by a player of the game rather than the rules of the game.
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Power-up
In video games, power-ups are objects that instantly benefit or add extra abilities to the game character as a game mechanic.
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Prima Games
Prima Games is the largest publishing company of video game strategy guides in the United States.
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Rally-X
is a driving game set in an overhead, scrolling maze, released in arcades by Namco, and licensed in 1980 to Midway Manufacturing Co. for US manufacture and distribution in 1981.
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Rogue (video game)
Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman and later contributions by Ken Arnold.
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Roguelike
Roguelike is a subgenre of role-playing video game characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent death of the player character.
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Scrolling
In computer displays, filmmaking, television production, and other kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display, vertically or horizontally.
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Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment, Inc. (formerly On-Line Systems and later Sierra On-Line, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher based in Bellevue, Washington.
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Sinclair Research
Sinclair Research Ltd is a British consumer electronics company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge.
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Sir-Tech
Sir-Tech Software, Inc. was a United States-based video game developer and publisher.
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Sirius Software
Sirius Software was a video game publisher of Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 and Commodore VIC-20 computer games in the early 1980s.
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Space Invaders
is an arcade game created by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978.
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Space Panic
is a 1980 arcade game designed by Universal Entertainment Corporation, which Chris Crawford called "the granddaddy of all platform games," as it predates Nintendo's Donkey Kong from 1981.
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Star Castle
Star Castle is a 1980 vector arcade game by Cinematronics.
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Stern (game company)
Stern is the name of two different but related arcade gaming companies.
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Strategic Simulations
Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit since its founding in 1979.
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Stratovox
Stratovox, known in Japan as Speak & Rescue (スピーク&レスキュー), is an arcade fixed shooter developed by Sun Electronics and published by Taito in 1980.
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Sunsoft
, stylized as SUNSOFT, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher.
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Tandy Corporation
Tandy Corporation was an American family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas.
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The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in Canada beginning on 6 September 1967, then in the United Kingdom on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968.
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The Prisoner (video game)
The Prisoner is a 1980 Apple II computer game produced by Edu-Ware.
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Track & Field (video game)
Track & Field, known in Japan and Europe as, is a 1983 Olympic-themed sports arcade game developed and published by Konami.
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TRS-80 Color Computer
The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer (also marketed as the Tandy Color Computer and sometimes nicknamed the CoCo) is a line of home computers based on the Motorola 6809 processor.
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TV Guide
TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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Universal Entertainment Corporation
, formerly known as, is a Japanese manufacturer of pachinko, slot machines, arcade games and other gaming products, and a publisher of video games.
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Vector graphics
Vector graphics are computer graphics images that are defined in terms of 2D points, which are connected by lines and curves to form polygons and other shapes.
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Video game console
A video game console is an electronic, digital or computer device that outputs a video signal or visual image to display a video game that one or more people can play.
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Video gaming in the United States
Video gaming in the United States is one of the fastest growing entertainment industries in the country.
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Wizard of Wor
Wizard of Wor is an arcade game released in 1980 by Midway.
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Yars' Revenge
Yars' Revenge is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1982.
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Zork
Zork is one of the earliest interactive fiction computer games, with roots drawn from the original genre game Colossal Cave Adventure.
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Zork I
Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I, later known as Zork I, is an interactive fiction video game written by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels and Tim Anderson and published by Infocom in 1980.
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ZX80
The Sinclair ZX80 is a home computer brought to market in 1980 by Science of Cambridge Ltd.
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1UP.com
1UP.com was an American entertainment website that focused on video games.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_in_video_gaming
