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Anonymous
1982: Arcade business data (US(...) 12/31/25(Wed)14:31:12 No.12283223
1982: Arcade business data (USA) Anonymous 12/31/25(Wed)14:31:12 No.12283223
Not a very talked about era, so some of you might be curious to know about which companies dominated the arcades and which arcade games were the hottest by 1982 (one year before the crash).

Some info we can extract from this page:

Top 5 dogs in the industry:

1 - Bally/Midway
2 - Atari
3 - Williams
4 - Nintendo
5 - Sega/Gremlin
and Taito America

The 13 games that stayed commercially viable for the longest time:
Ms. PacMan, Zaxxon, Donkey Kong, Robotron, Turbo, Galaga, Stargate, Tempest, Qix, Frogger, Pac-Man, Centipede and Defender
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Anonymous
12/31/25(Wed)16:23:35 No.12283523
Anonymous 12/31/25(Wed)16:23:35 No.12283523
>>12283223
Pac-Man staying that relevant for 2 years is genuinely impressive. I also wonder if that dip in weekly earnings was due to consoles taking away some players?
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Anonymous
12/31/25(Wed)16:30:04 No.12283536
Anonymous 12/31/25(Wed)16:30:04 No.12283536
>>12283223
>Midway and Atari the top dogs
Not surprised in the slightest.
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Anonymous
12/31/25(Wed)23:06:56 No.12284317
Anonymous 12/31/25(Wed)23:06:56 No.12284317
>>12283223
US only pretty irrelevent
does not even mention space invaders which was around forever
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Anonymous
01/01/26(Thu)08:35:19 No.12285084
Anonymous 01/01/26(Thu)08:35:19 No.12285084
>>12284317
>does not even mention space invaders which was around forever
By 1982 people had already played Space Invaders to death. It still made money, yes, but no chance it was going to have more people playing it than the latest releases.
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Anonymous
01/01/26(Thu)23:02:50 No.12286692
Anonymous 01/01/26(Thu)23:02:50 No.12286692
>>12284317
>one of the largest markets at the time
>"irrelevant"
Retard alert!
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