1981 in video games
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1981-in-video-games-181-2619204
title:
1981 in video games
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Fueled by the previous year's release of the colorful and appealing Pac-Man, the audience for arcade video games in 1981 became much wider. Pac-Man influenced maze games began appearing in arcades and on home systems. Pac-Man was the highest grossing video game for the second year in a row. Nintendo's Donkey Kong defined the platform game genre, while Konami's Scramble established scrolling shooters. The lesser known Jump Bug combined the two concepts into both the first scrolling platform game
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Overview of the events of 1981 in video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_in_video_games
date created:
2004-12-24T15:31:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T16:57:43Z
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