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Overview of the events of 1978 in video games
1978 saw the release of new video games such as Space Invaders golden age of arcade video games . The year's highest-grossing video game was Taito 's arcade game Space Invaders , while the best-selling home system was the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS).
Financial performance [ edit ]
Highest-grossing arcade games [ edit ]
Space Invaders video game worldwide in 1978.[1] arcade games of 1978 in Japan, the United Kingdom, United States, and worldwide.
In Japan, the following titles were the highest-grossing arcade games of 1978, according to the third annual Game Machine arcade video games and electro-mechanical games (EM games) on the same arcade game chart. Taito 's Space Invaders Game Machine charts, after the two previous charts were topped by an EM game, F-1 by Namco .[3] [4]
The following titles were the highest-grossing games on each Game Machine arcade chart. Nintendo 's EVR Race medal game for the third year in a row.[3] [4]
United States [ edit ]
In the United States, the following titles were the top ten highest-grossing arcade video games of 1978, in terms of coin drop earnings according to the annual Play Meter RePlay charts.
Best-selling home systems [ edit ]
Rank
System(s )
Manufacturer(s )
Type
Generation
Sales
Ref
1 Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS)
Atari, Inc.
Console
Second
300,000
[10]
Bandai Baseball
Bandai
Handheld
—
300,000
[11]
3 TRS-80
Tandy Corporation
Computer
8-bit
150,000
[12]
4 Commodore PET
Commodore International
Computer
8-bit
30,000
[12]
5 Apple II
Apple Inc.
Computer
8-bit
20,000
[13]
6 IMSAI 8080
IMS Associates, Inc.
Computer
8-bit
5,000
[13]
IBM 5110
IBM
Computer
—
5,000
8 Altair 8800
MITS
Computer
8-bit
4,000
[12]
HP 9800 series
Hewlett-Packard
Computer
—
4,000
[13]
10 Pertec/MITS 300
Pertec Computer
Computer
8-bit
3,000
[13]
Business [ edit ]
Notable releases [ edit ]
Arcade
Computer
Hardware [ edit ]
Computer
Console
See also [ edit ]
^ Space Invaders sold 85,000 cabinets in the United Kingdom between 1978 and 1979.[1]
^ ブロック 各被 Burokku Kakuhi
^ フリッパー Furippā
^ 各磁 クレーン
^ パイパイ45 Paipai 45
^ バンクロバーズ Banku Robāzu
^ 湘阿織機 Kansai Seiki
^ キャッスルテイク Kyassuru Teiku
^ 鬼泣かせ
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d "人気マシン・ベスト3" [Popular Machines: Best 3] (PDF) . Game Machine Amusement Press, Inc. February 1979. pp. 2–3.
^ a b c d e "調査対象5 年間のベスト1" [Best 1 of the 5 Years Surveyed] (PDF) . Game Machine Amusement Press, Inc. February 15, 1981. p. 1.
^ a b "Can Asteroids Conquer Space Invaders?" (PDF) . Electronic Games 31 ). Retrieved February 12, 2021 .
^ Kubey, Craig (1982). The Winners' Book of Video Games Warner Books . p. 90. ISBN 978-0-446-37115-5
^ a b "Video Games". RePlay . November 1978.
^ a b Bloom, Steve (1982). Video Invaders ISBN 978-0-668-05520-8
^ "The 'Winners' of '78: Top Arcade Games". Play Meter
^ Rubin, Michael (2006). "Eighteen: A Hole in the Desert [1982–1983]" (PDF) . Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution . Triad Publishing Company. pp. 291-314 (292-3). ISBN 978-0-937404-67-6
^ "昔(1970年代）のテレビゲームは何台売れた？" [How many old (1970s) video games sold?]. Classic Videogame Station Odyssey (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved April 16, 2021 .
^ a b c Reimer, Jeremy (December 15, 2005). "Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures" . Ars Technica Archived from the original on June 7, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2021 .
^ a b c d "BYTE News... Radio Shack Has Over 50 Percent of Personal Computer Business" . BYTE
^ "Players Guide To Electronic Science Fiction Games" . Electronic Games 1 2 ): 35–45 [36 ]. March 1982. Retrieved February 1, 2012 .
^ Kohler, Chris (September 6, 2011). "Bill Kunkel, Original Gaming Journalist, Dies at 61" . Wired . Retrieved March 1, 2012 .
^ "Coin-Op history – 1975 to 1997 – from the pages of RePlay" . RePlay . 1998. Archived from the original on April 28, 1998. Retrieved April 21, 2021 .
^ Yuko Aoyama & Hiro Izushi (2003), Hardware gimmick or cultural innovation? Technological, cultural, and social foundations of the Japanese video game industry Archived March 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine , Research Policy 32
^ "Essential 50: Space Invaders" . 1UP.com . Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2011 .
^ Edwards, Benj. "Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Space Invaders" . 1UP.com . Archived from the original on February 26, 2009. Retrieved July 11, 2008 .
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