This boom continued through the 1980s until home computers and home game consoles caught up with the quality of arcade machines.
With the top games earning billions, yes BILLIONS, of dollars in sales and coins every company wanted to release games to get their part of the action. Space Invaders started this Golden Age of Arcade Gaming, followed by Pacman, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Asteroids and many many more. In the early 1980s we saw a massive boom in computer gaming as arcade cabinet technology got better and better along with the release of some of the most iconic games ever produced. But at the time these were considered as technological breakthroughs and were the first-time the general public had a chance to play computer games. It all started with what we would consider incredibly simple games such as Pong, which was basically a ball bouncing around the screen, and Space War, which involved two spaceships firing bullets at each other. The massive gaming industry that we have today was born in the late 1970s with computer arcade machines.
