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Rally-X

In late 1980, Namco released a maze chase game, Rally-X, in Japan and with the help of Midway, Rally-X was brought to North America in 1981. Originally, Rally-X was thought to be a big hit, however, when it finally released against Pac-man and Defender, it fell to the wayside. Regardless, Rally-X w…

Ms. Pac-man

How does one follow up the massive success of Pac-man? Well, apparently you work with a third party entity to develop the idea. That's exactly what happened with Ms. Pac-man, not originally conceived by Namco or Midway, but by General Computer Corporation. How did this happen? Only one way to find …

Phoenix

It's December of 1980, a new game shows up at the local arcades from Centuri it's called Phoenix. Never heard of it, but it's an important one. Doing something Space Invaders and Galaga didn't do, introducing a "boss" as the final encounter of the game and progressive level game design, no repeats …

Wizard of Wor

It's 1980 and arcades are dominated by One Player games. However, Midway is here to solve the problem with Wizard of Wor, a pioneer of Two Player cooperative play, even with the computer AI helping if you are a lone gamer. Also an early adopter of synthesized speech and a maze like game at that. A …
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