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Space Panic

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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. [1]

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Acorn Electron

The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd.

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Acornsoft

Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers, and a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron.

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Alligata

Alligata Software Ltd. was a computer games developer and publisher based in Sheffield in the UK in the 1980s.

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Amsoft

Amsoft was a wholly owned subsidiary of Amstrad, PLC, founded in 1984 and re-integrated with its parent company in 1989.

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Amstrad CPC

The Amstrad CPC (short for Colour Personal Computer) is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990.

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Apple II

The Apple II (stylized as Apple.

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Apple Panic

Apple Panic is a 1981 platform game—from before the term existed—for the Apple II programmed by Ben Serki and published by Brøderbund Software.

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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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Atari 8-bit family

The Atari 8-bit family is a series of 8-bit home computers introduced by Atari, Inc. in 1979 and manufactured until 1992.

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Atlantis Software

Atlantis Software was a London-based UK computer games publisher that published a number of games during the 1980s and early 1990s.

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BBC Micro

The British Broadcasting Corporation Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, is a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by the Acorn Computer company for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Bonka

Bonka is a clone of the arcade game Space Panic released for the Dragon 32 and Commodore 64 in 1983.

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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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Chris Crawford (game designer)

Christopher Crawford (born June 1, 1950) is a computer game designer and writer.

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Chris Crawford on Game Design

Chris Crawford on Game Design is a book about computer and video game design by Chris Crawford.

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ColecoVision

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second-generation home video-game console that was released in August 1982.

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Commodore 16

The Commodore 16 is a home computer made by Commodore International with a 6502-compatible 7501 or 8501 CPU, released in 1984 and intended to be an entry-level computer to replace the VIC-20.

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Commodore 64

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64 or the CBM 64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas, January 7–10, 1982).

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Commodore VIC-20

The VIC-20 (in Germany: VC-20; In Japan: VIC-1001) is an 8-bit home computer that was sold by Commodore Business Machines.

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Compunet

Compunet was a United Kingdom based interactive service provider, catering primarily for the Commodore 64 but later for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST.

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Cuthbert Goes Digging

Cuthbert Goes Digging is a 1983 computer game for the Dragon 32 home computer.

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Donkey Kong (video game)

is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981.

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Dragon 32/64

The Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 are home computers that were built in the 1980s.

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Edge Games

Edge Games, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher headquartered in Pasadena, California, best known for the practices of its founder and chief executive officer, Tim Langdell, in enforcing trademarks relating to the word "edge", which sources have described as "litigious".

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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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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").

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Interceptor Micros

Interceptor Micros also known as Interceptor Software (and later as Interceptor Group) was a developer/publisher of video games for various 8-bit and 16-bit computer systems popular in Western Europe during the eighties and early nineties.

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Killer List of Videogames

The Killer List of Videogames (KLOV) is a website featuring an online encyclopedia devoted to cataloging arcade games past and present.

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Level (video gaming)

A level, map, area, stage, world, track, board, floor, zone, phase, mission, or course in a video game is the total space available to the player during the course of completing a discrete objective.

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Lode Runner

Lode Runner is a platform video game first published by Brøderbund in 1983.

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Mastertronic

Mastertronic was originally a publisher and distributor of low-cost computer game software founded in 1983.

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Microdeal

Microdeal was a British software company which operated during the 1980s and early 1990s from its base at Truro Road in the town of St Austell, Cornwall.

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Monaural

Monaural or monophonic sound reproduction (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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Monsters in Hell

Monsters in Hell is a ZX Spectrum game written by Martin Lewis and released by Softek in 1983.

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Mr. Do's Castle

Mr.

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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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Platform game

A platform game, or platformer, is a video game genre and subgenre of action game.

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Raster graphics

In computer graphics, a raster graphics or bitmap image is a dot matrix data structure that represents a generally rectangular grid of pixels (points of color), viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium.

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Single-player video game

A single-player video game is a video game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session.

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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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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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ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research.

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1980 in video gaming

1980 has seen many sequels and prequels in video games and several new titles such as Pac-Man, Battlezone and Crazy Climber.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Panic

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