Sunday, October 19, 2025

1980's video game scene powered by Space Invaders, Flight Simulator, Game & Watch


A simple round-up this week:

Space Invaders was still champ in the arcade and on home consoles (specifically for Atari); Flight Simulator was the top home computer game for the Apple II, and Nintendo kept on being innovative and weird with its release of Ball for Game & Watch, the precursor to Game Boy and, more amazingly, the DS: https://youtu.be/dptuQNXQu74





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