The 70’s were the golden age of arcade games and when Japan caught on it was made even better. When Japan caught onto what the rest of the worlds technology was doing. They caught up, made it better started mass producing it and making it cheaper. In 1978 Tomohiro Nishikado was the first to latch onto the the video game industry and created one of the most memorable games ever. Space Invaders, where a player is attacked by never ending waves of alien invaders. It took off instantly. The only bad thing about this game was that it always ended in the players defeat, there was no way to win.
In 1980 Namco created Pacman, the first video game super star with games still being released today after 25 years. Pacman or Eatman in Japan, was the first game to have a hero.
In 1983 the video game market crashed because of a very large amount of bad and poorly made games. But halfway around the world in the USSR Alexey Pajitnov had created one of the most addictive games ever, Tetris. The game was sold around the world and made millions. The games created in this era, the golden era for video games, set the foundation for the next era of gaming.
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