Arcade video game

Police 911 is a light gun arcade game.

An arcade video game takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display. Most arcade video games are coin-operated, housed in an arcade cabinet, and located in amusement arcades alongside other kinds of arcade games. Until the late 1990s, arcade video games were the largest and most technologically advanced segment of the video game industry.

Early prototypical entries Galaxy Game and Computer Space in 1971 established the principle operations for arcade games, and Atari's Pong in 1972 is recognized as the first successful commercial arcade video game. Improvements in computer technology and gameplay design led to a golden age of arcade video games, the exact dates of which are debated but range from the late 1970s to mid-1980s. This golden age includes Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong. The arcade industry had a resurgence from the early 1990s to mid-2000s, including Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, and Dance Dance Revolution, but ultimately declined in the Western world as competing home video game consoles such as the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox increased in their graphics and gameplay capability and decreased in cost. Nevertheless, Japan, China, and Korea retain a strong arcade industry in the present day.[citation needed]

History

Pong is the first commercially successful arcade video game

Games of skill had been popular amusement park midway attractions since the 19th century. With the introduction of electricity and coin-operated machines, they facilitated a viable business. When pinball machines with electric lights and displays were introduced in 1933, but without the user-controller flippers which would not be invented until 1947, these machines were seen as games of luck. Numerous states and cities treated them as amoral playthings for rebellious young people, and banned them into the 1960s and 1970s.

Electro-mechanical games (EM games) appeared in arcades in the mid-20th century. Following Sega's EM game Periscope (1966), the arcade industry experienced a "technological renaissance" driven by "audio-visual" EM novelty games, establishing the arcades as a healthy environment for the introduction of commercial video games in the early 1970s. In the late 1960s, college student Nolan Bushnell had a part-time job at an arcade where he became familiar with EM games such as Chicago Coin's racing game Speedway (1969), watching customers play and helping to maintain the machinery, while learning the game business.

The early mainframe game Spacewar! (1962) inspired the first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space (1971), created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney and released by Nutting Associates. It was demonstrated at the Amusement & Music Operators Association (AMOA) show in October 1971. Another Spacewar-inspired coin-operated video game, Galaxy Game, was demonstrated at Stanford University in November 1971. Bushnell and Dabney followed their success of Computer Space with the help of Allan Alcorn to create a table tennis game Pong, released in 1972. Pong was a commercial success, leading numerous other coin-op manufacturers to enter the market.

The video game industry transitioned from discrete integrated circuitry to programmable microprocessors in the mid-1970s, starting with Gun Fight in 1975. The arcade industry entered a "Golden Age" in 1978 with the release of Taito's Space Invaders, which introduced many novel gameplay features including a scoreboard. From 1978 to 1982, several other major arcade games from Namco, Atari, Williams Electronics, Stern Electronics, and Nintendo were all considered blockbusters, particularly with Namco's Pac-Man in 1980 which became a fixture in popular culture. Across North America and Japan, dedicated video game arcades appeared and arcade game cabinets appeared in many smaller storefronts. By 1981, the arcade video game industry was worth US$8 billion in the US.

The novelty of the arcade game waned sharply after 1982 from several factors, including market saturation of arcades and arcade games, a moral panic created over video games due to similar fears that had been raised over pinball machines in the decades prior, and the 1983 video game crash in the home console market that impacted arcades. The arcade market had recovered by 1986, with the help of software conversion kits, the arrival of popular beat 'em up games (such as Kung-Fu Master and Renegade), and advanced motion simulator games (such as Sega's "taikan" games including Hang-On, Space Harrier, and Out Run). However, the growth of home video game systems such as the Nintendo Entertainment System led to another brief arcade decline toward the end of the 1980s.

Arcade games continued to improve with technology and gameplay evolutions. In the early 1990s, the release of Capcom's Street Fighter II established the modern style of fighting games and led to a number of similar games such as Mortal Kombat, Fatal Fury, Killer Instinct, Virtua Fighter, and Tekken, creating a new renaissance in the arcades. Another factor was realism, including the "3D Revolution" from 2D and pseudo-3D graphics to true real-time 3D polygon graphics. This was largely driven by a technological arms race between Sega and Namco. 3D polygons were popularized in arcades during the early 1990s with games such as Sega's Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter. 3D graphics later became popular in console and computer games by the mid-1990s, though arcade systems such as the Sega Model 3 remained considerably more advanced than home systems in the late 1990s. Until about 1996, arcade video games had remained the largest segment of the global video game industry. Arcades declined in the late 1990s, surpassed by the console market for the first time around 1997-1998.

Since the 2000s, arcade games have taken different routes globally. In the United States, arcades have become niche markets as they compete with the home console market, and they adapted other business models, such as providing other entertainment options or adding prize redemptions. In Japan and China,[citation needed] arcades continue to flourish, where games like Dance Dance Revolution and The House of the Dead are tailored to experiences that players cannot easily have at home.

Technology

The inside of a Neo Geo

Virtually all modern arcade games (other than the very traditional fair midway) make extensive use of solid state electronics, integrated circuits, and monitor screens, all installed inside an arcade cabinet.

With the exception of Galaxy Game and Computer Space, which were built around small form-factor mainframe computers, the first arcade games are based on combinations of multiple discrete logic chips, such as transistor–transistor logic (TTL) chips. Designing an arcade game was more about the combination of these TTL chips and other electronic components to achieve the desired effect on screen. More complex gameplay required significantly more TTL components to achieve this result. By the mid-1970s, the first inexpensive programmable microprocessors had arrived on the market. The first microprocessor-based video game is Midway's Gun Fight in 1975 (a conversion of Taito's Western Gun), and with the advent of Space Invaders and the golden era, microprocessor-based games became typical.: 64  Early arcade games were also designed around raster graphics displayed on a cathode ray tube (CRT) display. Many games of the late 1970s and early 1980s use special displays that rendered vector graphics, though these waned by the mid-1980s as display technology on CRTs improved. Prior to the availability of color CRT or vector displays, some arcade cabinets have a combination of angled monitor positioning, one-way mirrors, and clear overlays to simulate colors and other graphics onto the gameplay field.

Coin-operated arcade video games from the 1990s to the 2000s generally use custom hardware often with multiple CPUs, highly specialized sound and graphics chips, and the latest in expensive computer graphics display technology. This allows more complex graphics and sound than contemporary video game consoles or personal computers. Many arcade games since the 2000s run on modified video game console hardware (such as the Sega NAOMI or Triforce) or gaming PC components (such as the Taito Type X). Many arcade games have more immersive and realistic game controls than PC or console games. This includes specialized ambiance or control accessories such as fully enclosed dynamic cabinets with force feedback controls, dedicated lightguns, rear-projection displays, reproductions of automobile or airplane cockpits, motorcycle or horse-shaped controllers, or highly dedicated controllers such as dancing mats and fishing rods. These accessories are usually too bulky, expensive, and specialized to be used with typical home PCs and consoles. Arcade makers experiment with virtual reality technology. Arcades have progressed from using coins as credits to smart cards that hold the virtual currency of credits.

Modern arcade cabinets use flat panel displays instead of cathode-ray tubes. Internet services such as ALL.Net, NESiCAxLive, e-Amusement and NESYS, allow the cabinets to download updates or new games, do online multiplayer gameplay, save progress, unlock content, or earn credits.

Genres

Sega Rally arcade racing games at the Veljekset Keskinen department store in Tuuri, Alavus, Finland in 2017

Many arcade games have short levels, simple and intuitive control schemes, and rapidly increasing difficulty. The classic formula for a successful arcade video game is "easy to learn, difficult to master" along with a "multiple life, progressively difficult level" paradigm. This is due to the environment of the arcade, where the player is essentially renting the game for as long as their in-game avatar can stay alive or until they run out of tokens. Games on consoles or PCs can be referred to as "arcade games" if they share these qualities, or are direct ports of arcade games.[citation needed]

Arcade racing games often have sophisticated motion simulator arcade cabinets, a simplified physics engine, and short learning time when compared with more realistic racing simulations. Cars can turn sharply without braking or understeer, and the AI rivals are sometimes programmed so they are always near the player with a rubberband effect. Other types of arcade-style games include music games (particularly rhythm games), and mobile and casual games with intuitive controls and short sessions.[citation needed]

Action

The term "arcade game" can refer to an action video game designed to play similarly to an arcade game with frantic, addictive gameplay. The focus of arcade action games is on the user's reflexes, and many feature very little puzzle-solving, complex thinking, or strategy skills.[citation needed] These include fighting games often played with an arcade controller, beat 'em up games including fast-paced hack and slash games, and light gun rail shooters and "bullet hell" shooters with intuitive controls and rapidly increasing difficulty.[citation needed]

Many arcade combat flight simulators have sophisticated hydraulic motion simulator cabinets, and simplified physics and handling. Arcade flight games are meant to have an easy learning curve, in order to preserve their action component. Increasing numbers of console flight video games, such as Crimson Skies, Ace Combat, and Secret Weapons Over Normandy indicate the falling of manual-heavy flight sim popularity in favor of instant arcade flight action.

A modern subgenre of action games called "hack and slash" or "character action games" represent an evolution of traditional arcade action games, and are sometimes considered a subgenre of beat 'em up brawlers. This subgenre of games was largely defined by Hideki Kamiya, creator of the Devil May Cry and Bayonetta franchises.

Industry

Arcade games are found in restaurants, bowling alleys, college campuses, video rental shops, dormitories, laundromats, movie theaters, supermarkets, shopping malls, airports, and other retail environments. They are popular in public places where people are likely to have free time.

Their profitability is expanded by the popularity of conversions of arcade games for home-based platforms. In 1997, WMS Industries (parent company of Midway Games) reported that if more than 5,000 arcade units are sold, at least 100,000 home version units will be sold.

The American Amusement Machine Association (AAMA) is a trade association established in 1981 that represents the American coin-operated amusement machine industry, including 120 arcade game distributors and manufacturers. The Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association (JAMMA) represents the Japanese arcade industry.

Conversions, emulators, and recreations

Prior to the 2000s, successful video games were often converted to a home video game console or home computer. Many of the initial Atari VCS games, for example, were conversions of Atari's success arcade games. Arcade game manufacturers that were not in the home console or computer business found licensing of their games to console manufacturers to be a successful business model, as console manufacturer competitors would vie for rights to more popular games. Coleco famously bested Atari to secure the rights to convert Nintendo's Donkey Kong, which it subsequently included as a pack-in game for the ColecoVision to challenge the VCS.

Arcade conversions typically had to make concessions for the lower computational power and capabilities of the home console, such as limited graphics or alterations in gameplay. Such conversions had mixed results. The Atari VCS conversion of Space Invaders was considered the VCS's killer application, helping to quadruple the VCS sales in 1980. In contrast, the VCS conversion of Pac-Man in 1982 was highly criticized for technical flaws due to VCS limitations such as flickering ghosts and simplified gameplay. Though Pac-Man was the best-selling game on the VCS, it eroded consumer confidence in Atari's games and partially contributed to the 1983 crash.

The need for arcade conversions began to wane as arcade game manufacturers like Nintendo, Sega, and SNK entered the home console market and used similar technology within their home consoles as found at the arcade, negating the need to simplify the game. Concessions still may be made for a home release; notably, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System conversion of Mortal Kombat removed much of the gore from the arcade version to meet Nintendo's quality control standards.

Exact copies of arcade video games can be run through emulators such as MAME on modern devices. An emulator is an application that translates foreign software onto a modern system, in real-time. Emulated games appeared legally and commercially on the Macintosh in 1994 with Williams floppy disks, Sony PlayStation in 1996, and Sega Saturn in 1997 with CD-ROM compilations such as Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits and Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1, and on the PlayStation 2 and GameCube with DVD-ROM compilations such as Midway Arcade Treasures.[citation needed] Arcade games are downloaded and emulated through the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console service starting in 2009.[citation needed]

Using emulation, companies like Arcade1Up have produced at-scale or reduced-scale recreations of arcade cabinets using modern technology, such as LCD monitors and lightweight construction. These cabinets are typically designed to resemble the original arcade game cabinets, but may also support multiple related games. These cabinets can be offered in diverse and miniaturized styles, such as table-mounted and wall-mounted versions.

Highest-grossing

For arcade games, success is usually judged by either the number of arcade hardware units sold to operators, or the amount of revenue generated. The revenue can include the coin drop earnings from coins (such as quarters, dollars, or 100 yen coins) inserted into machines, and/or the earnings from hardware sales with each unit costing thousands of dollars. Most of the revenue figures listed below are incomplete as they only include hardware sales revenue, due to a lack of available data for coin drop earnings which typically account for the majority of a hit arcade game's gross revenue. This list only includes arcade games that either sold more than 10,000 hardware units or generated a revenue of more than $10 million. Most of the games listed were released between the golden age of arcade video games (1978–1984) and the 1990s.

Game Release year Hardware units sold Estimated gross revenue
(US$ without inflation)
Estimated gross revenue
(US$ with 2020 inflation)
Pac-Man 1980 400,000 (until 1982) $6 billion (until 1982) $16.1 billion
Space Invaders 1978 750,000 (until 1979) $3.8 billion (until 1982) $15.1 billion
Street Fighter II 1991 221,000+ (until 1995) $5.31 billion+ (until 1999) $10.1 billion
Donkey Kong 1981 132,000 (until 1982) $280 million (until 1982)
(US hardware sales)
$800 million
(US hardware sales)
Ms. Pac-Man 1982 125,000 (until 1988) $1.5 billion (until 1995) $3 billion
Asteroids 1979 100,000 (until 2001) $800 million (until 1991) $2.28 billion
Defender 1981 70,000 (until 2020) $1.5 billion (until 2020) $2.16 billion
Print Club (Purikura) 1995 45,000 (until 1997) $283 million
(1997 hardware sales)
$481 million
(1997 hardware sales)
Centipede 1981 55,988 (until 1991) $115.65 million
(hardware sales until 1991)
$220 million
(hardware sales)
Galaxian 1979 50,000 (in the US until 1982)
Virtua Fighter 1993 40,000+ (until 1996)
Virtua Fighter 2 1994 40,000+ (until 1996)
Tekken 2 1995 40,000 (until 1996)
Starhorse2 2005 38,614 (until 2009) $59.321 million (until 2011)
(Fifth Expansion)
$78.6 million
(Fifth Expansion)
Hyper Olympic (Track & Field) 1983 38,000 (1983 in Japan)
Tekken 3 1996 35,000 (in 1997)
Donkey Kong Jr. 1982 30,000 (1982 in the US)
Mr. Do! 1982 30,000 (1982 in the US)
Karate Champ 1984 30,000 (in the US until 1985)
Out Run 1986 30,000 (until 1994) $100 million+ (cabinet sales) $240 million (cabinet sales)
Final Fight 1989 30,000 (until 1991)
Virtua Fighter 3 1996 30,000 (until 1997)
NBA Jam 1993 20,000 (until 2013) $2 billion (until 2013) $2.9 billion
World Club Champion Football 2002 2,479 (until 2009) $706.014 million (until 2012) $1.02 billion
Mortal Kombat II 1993 27,000 (until 2002) $600 million (until 2002) $932 million
Frogger 1981 $135 million+(US hardware sales) $384 million
(US hardware sales)
Tempest 1981 29,000 (until 1983) $62.408 million
(hardware sales until 1991)
$119 million
(hardware sales)
Q*bert 1982 25,000 (until 2001)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 25,000 (US & EU until May 1990)
Beatmania 1997 25,000 (until 2000) $12.4 million (until 1998)
(Japan hardware sales)
$20 million
(Japan hardware sales)
Mortal Kombat 1992 24,000 (until 2002) $570 million (until 2002) $820 million
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors 1994 24,000
Robotron: 2084 1982 23,000 (until 1983)
Pole Position 1982 21,000 (in the US until 1983) $60.933 million (until 1983)
(US hardware sales)
$163 million
(US hardware sales)
Dig Dug 1982 22,228 (in the US until 1983) $46.3 million (until 1983)
(US hardware sales)
$124 million
(US hardware sales)
Popeye 1982 20,000 (in the US until 1982)
Vs. Super Mario Bros. 1986 20,000 (1986)
Pump It Up 1999 20,000 (until 2005)
Tekken Tag Tournament 1999 19,000 (until 2000)
Jungle Hunt 1982 18,000 (in the US until 1983)
Raiden 1990 17,000
Killer Instinct 1994 17,000 $125 million+ $218 million+
Pokémon Mezastar 2020 $193 million+ (until 2021) $193 million+
Dragon's Lair 1983 16,000 (until 1983) $68.8 million
(hardware sales until 1983)
$179 million
(hardware sales)
Asteroids Deluxe 1981 22,399 (until 1999) $46.1 million
(hardware sales until 1999)
$71.6 million
(hardware sales)
Missile Command 1980 19,999 (until 2010) $36.8 million
(hardware sales until 1991)
$69.9 million
(hardware sales)
Berzerk 1980 15,780 (until 1981)
Scramble 1981 15,136 (until 1981)
Champion Baseball 1983 15,000 (in Japan until June 1983)
Mushiking: King of the Beetles 2003 13,500 (until 2005) $530 million (until 2007) $746 million
Battlezone 1980 15,122 (until 1999) $31.2 million
(hardware sales until 1999)
$48.5 million
(hardware sales)
Stargate 1981 15,000 (until 1983)
Space Duel 1982 12,038 (until 1991)
Mahjong Fight Club 3 2004 13,000 (until 2004)
Super Cobra 1981 12,337 (until 1981)
Capcom Bowling 1988 12,000 (until 1991)
Sega Rally Championship 1994 12,000
Oshare Majo: Love and Berry 2004 10,300 (until 2006) $302.68 million (until 2007) $415 million
Double Dragon 1987 10,000+ (US in 1988)
Street Fighter 1987 10,000+ (until 1991)
Dance Dance Revolution 1998 10,000+ (until 1999)
Wheels / Wheels II (Speed Race) 1974 10,000 (1975 in the US)
Gee Bee 1978 10,000
Big Buck Hunter Pro 2006 10,000 (until 2009)
World Club Champion Football: Intercontinental Clubs 2008 1,689 (until 2009) $150.1 million (until 2012) $180 million
Pokémon Battrio 2007 $125 million+ (until 2012) $156 million+
StarHorse3 Season I: A New Legend Begins 2011 $132.18 million (until 2012) $152 million
Pokémon Tretta 2012 $125 million+ (until 2014) $141 million+
Border Break 2009 2,998 (until 2009) $107 million (until 2012) $129 million
Tron 1982 800 (in the US until 1982) $45 million (until 1983) $102 million
Sengoku Taisen 2010 $94.04 million (until 2012) $112 million
Pokémon Ga-Olé 2016 $92 million+ (until 2018) $99.2 million+
Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road 2007 $78.2 million (until 2008) $97.6 million
Samba de Amigo 1999 3,000 (until 2000) $47.11 million (until 2000) $73.2 million
Sangokushi Taisen 3 2007 $54.4 million (until 2011) $67.9 million
Pong 1972 8,500–19,000 $11 million (until 1973) $64.1 million
Lord of Vermilion 2008 $50.443 million (until 2008) $60.6 million
Sega Network Mahjong MJ4 2008 12,892 (until 2009) $47 million (until 2010) $56.5 million
Kangaroo 1982 9,803 (until 1983) $20.58 million (until 1983)
(US hardware sales)
$55.2 million
(US hardware sales)
Hard Drivin' 1989 3,318 (until 1989) $22.9 million (until 1989) $47.8 million
Gauntlet 1985 7,848 (until 1985) $18.01 million (until 1985) $43.3 million
Sega Network Mahjong MJ5 2011 $34.87 million (until 2012) $40.1 million
Millipede 1982 9,990 (until 1991) $20.669 million (until 1991) $39.3 million
Race Drivin' 1990 3,525 (until 1991) $20.03 million (until 1991) $38.1 million
Breakout 1976 15,000 (until 1981) $12.045 million
(hardware sales until 1981)
$34.3 million
Time Traveler 1991 $18 million (until 1991) $34.2 million
Space Ace 1984 $13 million (until 1984) $32.4 million
Xevious 1982 5,295 (in the US until 1983) $11.1 million (until 1983)
(US hardware sales)
$29.8 million
(US hardware sales)
Atari Football 1978 11,306 (until 1999) $17.266 million (until 1999) $26.8 million
Final Lap 1987 1,150 (in the US until 1988) $9.5 million (until 1988)
(US hardware sales)
$21.6 million
(US hardware sales)
Paperboy 1984 3,442 (until 1991) $8.6 million (until 1991) $16.3 million
Star Wars 1983 12,695 (until 1991) $7.595 million (until 1991) $14.4 million
Sprint 2 1976 8,200 (until 1999) $12.669 million (until 1999) $19.7 million
Championship Sprint 1986 3,595 (until 1991) $8.26 million (until 1991) $15.7 million
Pole Position II 1983 2,400 (in the US until 1983) $7.43 million (until 1983)
(US hardware sales)
$19.3 million
(US hardware sales)
Sea Wolf 1976 10,000 (until 2000)
Lunar Lander 1979 4,830 (until 1999) $8.19 million (until 1999) $12.7 million
Super Sprint 1986 2,232 (until 1999) $7.8 million (until 1999) $12.1 million
Marble Madness 1984 4,000 (until 1985) $6.3 million (until 1991) $12 million
Rolling Thunder 1986 2,406 (in the US until 1987) $4.8 million (until 1987)
(US hardware sales)
$11.3 million
(US hardware sales)
Arabian 1983 1,950 (in the US until 1983) $3.9 million (until 1983)
(US hardware sales)
$10.1 million
(US hardware sales)

Franchises

These are the combined hardware sales of at least two or more arcade games that are part of the same franchise. This list only includes franchises that have sold at least 5,000 hardware units or grossed at least $10 million revenues.

Franchise Original release year Total hardware units sold Estimated gross revenue
(US$ without inflation)
Estimated gross revenue
(US$ with 2020 inflation)
Pac-Man 1980 526,412 (until 1988) $6 billion (until 1982) $16 billion
Space Invaders 1978 750,000 (until 1980) $3.8 billion (until 1982) $15.1 billion
Street Fighter 1987 500,000 (until 2002) $5.31 billion+ (until 1999) $10.1 billion
Pac-Man clones 1980 300,000 (until 2002)
Street Fighter clones 1987 200,000+
Mario 1981 190,800 (until 1983) $280 million (until 1982)
(US hardware sales)
$797 million
(US hardware sales)
Donkey Kong 1981 167,000 (until 1983) $280 million (until 1982)
(US hardware sales)
$797 million
(US hardware sales)
Asteroids 1979 136,437 (until 1999) $850.79 million (until 1999) $1.32 billion
Virtua Fighter 1993 110,000+
Golden Tee Golf 1989 100,000 (until 2011)
Data Carddass 2005 100,000 (until 2012)
Tekken 1994 94,000+
Defender 1981 85,000 (until 2020) $1.5 billion (until 2020) $2.16 billion
Centipede 1981 65,978 (until 1991) $136.3 million (until 1991) $259 million
Mortal Kombat 1992 51,000 (until 2002) $1.17 billion (until 200) $1.68 billion
Galaxian 1979 50,986 (in the US until 1988)
Pokémon arcade games 2007 $536 million+ (until 2021) $669 million+
Starhorse 2000 38,734 (until 2009) $191.501 million (until 2012) $288 million
Bemani 1997 35,000+ (until 2000) $12.4 million (until 1998)
(Beatmania hardware sales in Japan)
$20 million
(Beatmania hardware sales in Japan)
Big Buck 2000 33,500 (until 2010)
Mr. Do! 1982 30,000 (in the US until 1982)
Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road 2007 $78.2 million (until 2008) $97.6 million
Lord of Vermilion 2008 $50.443 million (until 2008) $60.6 million
Scramble 1981 27,473 (until 1981)
Sega Network Mahjong 2000 25,986 (until 2006) $81.87 million (until 2012) $123 million
Darkstalkers 1994 27,000+
Pole Position 1982 24,550 (in the US until 1983) $77.9 million (until 1988)
(US hardware sales)
$209 million
(US hardware sales)
Dig Dug 1982 22,228 (in the US until 1983) $46.3 million (until 1983)
(US hardware sales)
$124 million
(US hardware sales)
Pump It Up 1999 20,000 (until 2005)
Breakout 1976 15,805 (until 1999) $17.745 million (until 1999) $27.6 million
Star Wars 1983 14,039 (until 1991) $9.275 million (until 1983) $17.6 million
Sprint 1976 14,027 (until 1999) $28.729 million (until 1999) $44.6 million
Mushiking 2003 13,500 (until 2005) $530 million (until 2007) $746 million
Sea Wolf 1976 14,000 (until 2000)
Mahjong Fight Club 2002 13,000 (until 2004)
Gauntlet 1985 11,368 (until 1991) $20.41 million (until 1991) $38.8 million
Love and Berry 2004 10,300 (until 2006) $302.68 million (until 2007) $415 million
Sangokushi Taisen 2005 9,929 (until 2008) $148.44 million (until 2012) $197 million
Pong 1972 8500–19,000 $11 million (until 1973) $64.1 million
Hard Drivin' 1989 6,843 (until 1991) $42.93 million (until 1991) $75.48 million
Samba de Amigo 1999 3,000 (until 2000) $47.11 million (until 2000) $73.2 million
Border Break 2009 2,998 (until 2009) $107 million (until 2012) $129 million
World Club Champion Football 2012 2,479 (until 2015) $706.014 million (until 2012) $1.02 billion

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