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01 November 2026
This event begins 11/01/15 and repeats every year until 11/01/50
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01 November 2026
This event begins 11/01/15 and repeats every year until 11/01/75
Released November 1, 1983
The game draws inspiration from the James Bond films and was originally supposed to carry the James Bond license. The object of the game is to drive down roads in the technologically advanced "Interceptor" car and destroy various enemy vehicles with a variety of onboard weapons. Spy Hunter was produced in both sit-down and standard upright versions with the latter being more common.[1] The game's controls consist of a steering wheel in the form of a futuristic aircraft-style yoke with several special-purpose buttons, a two-position stick shift (offering 'low' and 'high' gears), and a pedal used for acceleration.
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01 November 2026
This event begins 11/01/15 and repeats every year until 11/01/75
Asteroids is an arcade space shooter released in November 1979[1] by Atari, Inc. and designed by Lyle Rains, Ed Logg, and Dominic Walsh. The player controls a spaceship in anasteroid field which is periodically traversed by flying saucers. The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers' counter-fire. The game becomes harder as the number of asteroids increases.
Asteroids was conceived during a meeting between Logg and Rains and used hardware developed by Howard Delman previously used for Lunar Lander. Based on an unfinished game titled Cosmos and inspired by Spacewar! and Computer Space, both early shoot 'em up video games, Asteroids ' physics model and control scheme were derived by Logg from these earlier games and refined through trial and error. The game is rendered on a vector display in a two-dimensional view that wraps around in both screen axes.
Acclaimed by players and video game critics for its vector graphics, controls, and addictive gameplay, Asteroids was one of the first major hits of the golden age of arcade games. The game sold over 70,000 arcade cabinets and proved both popular with players and influential with developers. It has since been ported to multiple platforms. Asteroids was widely imitated and directly influenced two popular and often cloned arcade games, Defender[2] and Gravitar, as well as many other video games.
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01 November 2026
This event begins 11/01/15 and repeats every year until 11/01/75
Pole Position (ポールポジション Pōru Pojishon?) is an arcade racing video game which was released by Namco in 1982 and licensed to Atari, Inc. for US manufacture and distribution, running on the Namco Pole Position arcade system board. The game was designed by Tōru Iwatani, who had also designed the Gee Bee games and Pac-Man. It was the most popular coin-op arcade game of 1983. Pole Position was released in two configurations: a standard upright cabinet, and an environmental/cockpit cabinet. Both versions feature a steering wheel and a gear shifter for low and high gears, but the environmental/cockpit cabinet featured both an accelerator and a brake pedal, while the standard upright one only featured an accelerator pedal.[2]
By 1983, it had become the highest-grossing arcade game that year in North America,[3] where it had sold over 21,000 machines for $61 million[4][5] ($149 million in 2015), along with $450 ($1100 in 2015) weekly revenues per machine.[6] It was the most successful racing game of theclassic era, spawning ports, sequels, and a Saturday morning cartoon.[3] The game established the conventions of the racing game genre and its success inspired numerous imitators. Pole Position is regarded as one of the most influential video games of all time and "arguably the most important racing game ever made."[7]
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01 November 2026
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Time Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shooter and free-roaming aerial combat arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released byKonami in 1982, and distributed in the United States by Centuri. Debuting in the golden age of video arcade games, it is a time travel themed game that allowed the player's plane to freely move across open air space that can scroll indefinitely in all directions.[3][4][5] The Killer List of Videogames included Time Pilot in its list of top 100 arcade games of all time.[6]
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01 November 2026
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Gun Fight, known as Western Gun in Japan[2] and Europe,[3] is a 1975 arcade shooter game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado,[4] and released by Taito in Japan[2] and Europe[3] and by Midway Games in North America.[2][4] It was the first video game to depict human-to-human combat,[5]while the Midway version was also the first video game to use a microprocessor.[5][6] Following its November 1975 release in North America, it went on to sell over 8,000 arcade cabinets in the United States.[1] It was ported to the Bally Astrocade video game console[7] as a built-in game[8]in 1977[9] as well as several home computer platforms.[10][11]
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