Second Gen Games
Arcade Games. First Gen was just like Pong and this thing called Spacewar! which later became Computer Space.
1978-1984 turning point.
Tennis for Two 1958 is technically the first video game ever made.
1978-1984 turning point.
Tennis for Two 1958 is technically the first video game ever made.
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- Commonly considered as one of the most influential video games of all time, the goal is to defeat wave after wave of descending aliens with a horizontally moving laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.
- This update to Pac-Man (1980) changed the character to a lady, added moving fruit, smarter monsters, cut scenes and more mazes.
- Navigate Pac-Man through a maze escaping ghosts and eating Pac-Dots.
- In this arcade game, you must help a frog cross a highway and a river while avoiding obstacles so he can get to his home safely.
- The sequel to Galaxian (1979), the player controls a spaceship and faces waves of enemy aliens that try to destroy, capture, or collide with the spaceship.
- Missiles from the sky are attacking the cities, you, as the player, must defend the 6 cities as long as you can.
- Infamous Atari 2600 adaption of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" in which the eponymous character has to navigate through various screens to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone that will allow him to contact his home planet.
- DirectorEd LoggYour spaceship is trapped in an asteroid belt. Watch out for enemy spacecraft and maneuver your way out.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoArcade video game and the first in the "Donkey Kong" series in which Jumpman (later retconned to be Mario) runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong.
- DirectorShigeru MiyamotoTwo plumber brothers, Mario and Luigi, come across unearthly creatures while searching sewer pipes, so they must do their job and clear the pipes.
- Face waves of aliens descending on your spaceship and clear the screen to achieve victory.
- Pitfall Harry must collect treasures while dodging obstacles in a South American jungle.
- Mappy is a side-scrolling platform game that features Mappy, a police mouse that must retrieve stolen goods that are stored in a Mansion that belong to a cat gang (called Meowkies in the game) that Mappy must avoid.
- Defend the human population from swarms of attacking aliens.
- Featured game.
- You control a yellow crab-shaped shooter that travels along the outside rim of a 3-dimensional tunnel, shooting enemies down the alleys of the tunnel while avoiding any coming down the alleys. The tunnel takes on many different forms, and the shooter has a special "superzapper" that enables it to kill all enemies present in the tunnel.
- Featured game.
- You play as a spy in a car that is advanced and destroy enemies vehicles with weapons.
- DirectorGenyo TakedaBronx kid Little Mac is trained by ex-boxer "Doc" Louis so he may gain a name for himself in the World Video Boxing Association, in hopes he can fight the legendary Mr. Dream.
- StarsBrandon Scott MillerYou play a kid delivering papers on his treacherous route.
- StarsHarrison FordMark HamillJames Earl JonesAssume the role of Luke Skywalker and fight past many enemies to reach and destroy the Death Star.