arcade games

An arcade game is a coin-operated entertainment machine, such as restaurants, bars, particularly ...

Arcade Games Extension - Play Classic Games on Chrome

Arcade Games is a Chrome extension that brings the nostalgia of classic arcade games to your browser. Play popular titles like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and more with this easy-to-use extension. Have fun and relive the golden age of arcade gaming!

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Users: 1,520+
Rating: 2.50
(10)
Version: 0.1.3 (Last updated: 2015-06-11)
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
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Manifest version: 2
Size: 27.68K
Price: Free

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An arcade game (or coin-op) is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses, such as restaurants, bars, and particularly amusement arcades. Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers (such as claw cranes).

The golden age of arcade video games lasted from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s. While arcade games were still relatively popular during the late 1990s, the entertainment medium saw a continuous decline in popularity in the Western hemisphere when home-based video game consoles made the transition from 2D graphics to 3D graphics. Despite this, arcades remain popular in many parts of Asia as late as the early 2010s.

Arcade video games

In 1971 students at Stanford University set up the Galaxy Game, a coin-operated version of the Spacewar video game. This ranks as the earliest known instance of a coin-operated video game. Later in the same year, Nolan Bushnell created the first mass-manufactured game, Computer Space, for Nutting Associates.

In 1972, Atari was formed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. Atari essentially created the coin-operated video game industry with the game Pong, the first successful electronic ping pong video game. Pong proved to be popular, but imitators helped keep Atari from dominating the fledgling coin-operated video game market.

Arcade genre Arcade games often have short levels, simple and intuitive control schemes, and rapidly increasing difficulty. 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 titles. Many independent developers are now producing games in the arcade genre that are designed specifically for use on the Internet. These games are usually designed with Flash/Java/DHTML and run directly in web-browsers.

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arcade games does not require any sensitive permissions.

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arcade games is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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