1981 in video games

Fueled by the previous year's release of the colorful and appealing Pac-Man, the audience for arcade games in 1981 became much wider. Pac-Man influenced maze games began appearing in arcades and on home systems. Nintendo broke from their mediocre early releases with Donkey Kong which defined the platform genre.

List of years in video games

Events

Magazines

  • January – Atari computer magazine ANALOG Computing begins 9 years of publication. Most issues include at least one BASIC game and one machine language game.
  • November – The British video game magazine Computer and Video Games (C&VG) starts.
  • Winter – Arnie Katz and Bill Kunkel found Electronic Games, the first magazine on video games and generally recognized as the beginning of video game journalism.

Business

Notable releases

Games

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Hardware

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References

  1. Video Game Myth Busters - Did the "Crash" of 1983/84 Affect Arcades?, The Golden Age Arcade Historian (December 27, 2013)
  2. George Lucas and the Digital Revolution Archived January 29, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, p. 296, 2006
  3. http://2600connection.com/library/magazines/spectrum/spectrum_dec82.pdf#page=7 Archived November 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Game Genres: Shmups, Professor Jim Whitehead, January 29, 2007, Accessed June 17, 2008
  5. "donkey kong [coin-op] arcade video game, nintendo co., ltd. (1981)". Arcade-history.com. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
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