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Overview of the events of 1983 in video games
1983 has seen many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Mario Bros. Pole Position II Astron Belt Champion Baseball Dragon's Lair Elevator Action Spy Hunter Track & Field video game crash of 1983 in North America, and the third generation of video game consoles beginning with the launch of Nintendo 's Family Computer (Famicom) and Sega 's SG-1000 in Japan. The year's highest-grossing video game was Namco 's arcade game Pole Position Game & Watch for the third time since 1980 .
Financial performance [ edit ]
In the United States , arcade video game revenues are worth $ 2.9 billion[1]
In the United States, home video game sales are worth $2 billion[2]
In Japan , home video game sales approach ¥ 400 billion[3] $1.68 billion at the time, or $5.69 billion adjusted for inflation).
Highest-grossing arcade games [ edit ]
Pole Position racing game by Namco , was the most successful arcade game of 1983.[4]
In Japan, Game Machine arcade games from June 1, 1983.[5] Game Machine charts from June to December 1983.
United States [ edit ]
In the United States, the following titles were the highest-grossing arcade games of 1983, according to RePlay magazine, the Amusement & Music Operators Association (AMOA), and Cash Box
Rank
RePlay
AMOA[20]
Cash Box [21] Play Meter
1 Pole Position [22] Pole Position [23] Ms. Pac-Man Pole Position Dragon's Lair [24]
2 Dragon's Lair Mr. Do! [25] Bump 'n' Jump Galaga Ms. Pac-Man Mr. Do! Bag Man Nibbler Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom Jungle King (Jungle Hunt )Donkey Kong Joust Time Pilot Q*bert Unknown
3 Dragon's Lair
4 Unknown
Millipede
5 Unknown
—
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Best-selling home video games [ edit ]
The following titles were the best-selling home video games of 1983.
Rank
Title
Platform
Publisher
Licensor
Release Year
Genre
Sales
Ref
1 Ms. Pac-Man Atari 2600
Atari, Inc.
Midway
1983
Maze
1,963,078
[26]
2 Donkey Kong ColecoVision
Coleco
Nintendo
1982
Platformer
1,500,000
[27]
3 Centipede Atari 2600
Atari, Inc.
—
1983
Shoot 'em up
1,475,240
[26]
4 Pitfall! Atari 2600
Activision
—
1982
Platformer
1,000,000+
[28] [29]
5 Pac-Man Atari 2600
Atari, Inc.
Namco
1982
Maze
684,569
[26]
6 Night Driver Atari 2600
Atari, Inc.
—
1980
Racing
580,959
7 Space Invaders Atari 2600
Atari, Inc.
Taito
1980
Shoot 'em up
435,353
8 Warlords Atari 2600
Atari, Inc.
—
1981
Action
372,672
9 Breakout Atari 2600
Atari, Inc.
—
1978
Block breaker
312,672
10 Centipede Atari 2600
Atari, Inc.
—
1983
Shoot 'em up
100,499
Best-selling home systems [ edit ]
Rank
System(s )
Manufacturer
Type
Generation
Sales
Japan
Worldwide
1 Game & Watch
Nintendo
Handheld
—
—
5,300,000[30]
2 Atari 2600 (Atari VCS)
Atari, Inc.
Console
Second
—
3,000,000[31]
3 Commodore 64 (C64)
Commodore
Computer
8-bit
—
2,000,000[32]
4 ColecoVision
Coleco
Console
Second
—
1,500,000[27]
5 Family Computer (Famicom / NES)
Nintendo
Console
Third
1,000,000+[33] [34]
1,000,000+
6 IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC)
IBM
Computer
8-bit / 16-bit
—
850,000[35]
7 Intellivision
Mattel
Console
Second
—
750,000[36]
8 Atari 400 / Atari 800
Atari, Inc.
Computer
8-bit
—
500,000[32]
9 Apple II
Apple Inc.
Computer
8-bit
—
420,000[32]
10 NEC PC-88 / PC-98
NEC
Computer
8-bit / 16-bit
360,000[37] [38]
360,000+
Major awards [ edit ]
January – Electronic Games Donkey Kong Space Panic [42]
The fourth Arcade Awards are held, for games released during 1981–1982, with Tron arcade game , Demon Attack console game , David's Midnight Magic computer game , and Galaxian standalone game.
A major shakeout of the North American video game industry ("the crash of 1983") begins. By 1986, total video games sales will decrease from US$3.2 billion to US$0.1 billion.[43]
December - Sente Technologies, a division of Pizza Time Theater, launches and demonstrates its first title Snake Pit .
Business [ edit ]
MCA Universal files suit against Nintendo , claiming that the latter company's video arcade hit Donkey Kong King Kong . After a brief trial, the judge determined that the rights to the original Kong had passed into the public domain . The case was dismissed, and MCA Universal paid US$1.8 million in damages to Nintendo.,[44]
Atari files suit against Coleco , claiming violation of Atari's patents on the Atari 2600 video game console . The previous year, Coleco released a peripheral device that made it possible for Atari 2600 game cartridges to be run on the ColecoVision console.[45]
Amusement Developing Section 8 (later known as Sega-AM2 ), a research and development department of Sega , is established under the supervision of Yu Suzuki in Tokyo , Japan.[46]
Milton Bradley takes over distribution of the Vectrex console after purchasing General Consumer Electronics.
New companies: Aackosoft , Alligata , Beyond , Graftgold , Infogrames ,[47] Origin Systems ,[48] Interplay ,[49] Navarre ,[50] Mastertronic , Spectrum HoloByte , Tynesoft
Defunct companies: Games by Apollo , U.S. Games , Xonox .
Notable releases [ edit ]
Arcade
January – Namco releases Xevious
March – Sega releases Astron Belt Japanese market , the second laserdisc video game . It uses pre-rendered , computer-animated film footage as backdrops, overlaid with sprite graphics.
May – Atari releases Star Wars vector graphics game based on the popular film franchise .[51]
Konami releases Gyruss Centuri distributes the game in North America.[52]
June 14 – Nintendo releases Mario Bros. Mario 's brother, Luigi .
June 19 – Cinematronics releases Advanced Microcomputer Systems's Dragon's Lair [53] laserdisc video game , and the first in the American market .
June – Data East releases Bega's Battle [54] anime FMV cut scenes to develop a story between the game's shooting stages, which would later become the standard approach to video game storytelling .[55]
August – Sega releases Astron Belt in Europe , as the first laserdisc game in the region.[56]
September – Konami releases Track & Field
November – Sega releases Astron Belt [57]
December – Namco releases Pole Position II
Atari releases the trackball-controlled Crystal Castles
Bally /Midway releases Spy Hunter [58] Jr. Pac-Man Professor Pac-Man Namco 's authorization, and the latter is an immediate flop .
Nintendo releases Punch-Out!!
Williams releases Blaster
Parker Brothers releases James Bond 007
Personal computer
June – Yuji Horii releases The Portopia Serial Murder Case NEC PC-6001 in Japan. It is an influential adventure game that lays the foundations for the visual novel genre.[59]
July 8 – Infocom releases Planetfall
August 23 – Origin Systems publishes Ultima III: Exodus role-playing video games to use tactical, turn-based combat . It is released for the Apple II , Atari 8-bit computers , Commodore 64 , and IBM PC .[48]
ASCII releases Bokosuka Wars Sharp X1 in Japan. It is a precursor to the tactical role-playing game [60] real-time strategy [61]
Koei releases Nobunaga's Ambition grand strategy and management simulation elements sets a standard for the historical simulation and strategy RPG genres.[62]
Electronic Arts publishes its first five titles: Hard Hat Mack Pinball Construction Set Archon: The Light and the Dark M.U.L.E. Worms? [63]
Bug-Byte releases Matthew Smith 's Manic Miner platform game , for the ZX Spectrum .[64]
Ultimate Play the Game , later known as Rare , releases its first video games, Jetpac Atic Atac [65]
Hudson Soft releases Bomberman MSX and FM-7 .
Psion releases Chequered Flag ZX Spectrum ,[66] car simulators , and the first driving game with selectable cars.[67]
The 4-player simultaneous Dandy Atari 8-bit computers . It directly inspires 1985's Gauntlet
Muse Software releases a port of Castle Wolfenstein for the MS-DOS .
Console
Hardware [ edit ]
Arcade
Console
Family Computer
July 15 – Sega releases the SG-1000 console in Japan,[70]
July 15 – Nintendo releases the Family Computer (Famicom) console in Japan. Shortly after its release, complaints begin to surface about rampant system instability, prompting Nintendo to issue a product recall and to rerelease the machine with a new motherboard .[43]
October – Casio launches the Casio PV-1000 in Japan. It does not remain on the market for long.
October – Gakken launches the Compact Vision TV Boy in Japan. It's the last second generation console released. It was expensive and obsolete at launch, being discontinued shortly after.
GameLine , a combination modem and dialup game distribution service for the Atari 2600 , is announced but never ships.
Personal computer
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