First Japanese Arcade Video Game?

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:49 am

I'd like to know which was the first Japanese coin-op video game. Maybe Astro Race by Taito from 1973?

Octopod · Post by **Octopod** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:35 pm

Taito Safari 1972....dont know if that is the first Japanese arcade game though.

Also in '73 Taito released Pro Hockey, Elepong, Davis Cup and Soccer.

Here is someones Taito game list...i have no idea how acurate it is actually though.

http://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/spie ... meList.txt

Ceph · Post by **Ceph** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:48 pm

Octopod wrote:Taito Safari 1972....dont know if that is the first Japanese arcade game though.

That's apparently an error. I found this in the google cache:

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:B5y ... cd=1&gl=us

D · Post by D » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:01 pm

OK, what's the first Japanese arcade shmup!

kernow · Post by **kernow** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:11 pm

Space Invaders?

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 1:27 pm

kernow wrote:Space Invaders?

so obvious it has to be true

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:39 pm

ozma wars is better

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