Introduced June 1981 Early popular arcade games tended to be space-themed shoot-‘em-ups, which tended to appeal to male customers. However,...

Introduced November 1980 Displays on early computer systems – and arcade games – tended to be divided into two categories. Most used a serie...

Missile Command screenshot Introduced July 1980 It’s the height of the Cold War, and the possibility of nuclear annihilation is always...

This year we’ve covered products debuting in 1959 , 1969 , 1979 , 1989 , 1999 , 2004 , 2009 and 2014 . Here are a few of the things we miss...

Introduced November 1979 1979 was a landmark year for Atari – the launch of the popular 400 and 800 computers, the Lunar Lander arcade ...

Atari 800 (1979) Introduced November 1979 In the late 1970s the microcomputer revolution had been kicked off by the holy trinity of the ...

Atari Lunar Lander (Right) next to an Atari Space War machine Launched August 1979 It is 1979 and the dawn of the Golden Age of Arcade G...

Released June 1989 Handheld computers had been around for a couple of years by 1989, with Psion being an early pioneer. But a group of for...

Launched September 1977 1977 was the dawn of home computing, with the Apple II , Commodore PET and TRS-80 Model I all being launched wit...

Atari 1040ST Launched June 1985 Launched in the summer of 1985, the Atari ST was a direct competitor to the Commodore Amiga ....