*Vector monitors draw their screen by perfectly straight lines instead of pixels

*'Sonic the hedgehog' and 'Zool' were some of the few home-originated games to make it to the arcades.
Games such as rainbow islands, pacland, Wonderboy and zzzzzzzz have many levels missing in the home conversions
Games such as commando, r-type, turbo-outrun, superhang-on, 
Amiga Pang and Toki were possibly the only home conversions to be nigh-on perfect.<br>
Semi-near perfect conversions include Megadrive (Strider, Altered beast) and SNES (Streetfighter 2, UN Squadron).





*There are zzzz arcade games altogether and yyyy if you include the various bootlegs/versions. Over 500 known arcade games have still yet to be emulated by MAME aswell (and many more than this if you include games with bugs).

*Many games such as Breakout and Marble Madness were designed for the analogue trackball device and will not play as designed through emulation. Naturally, many other games such as Outrun, Night driver, Operation wolf, Point Blank etc. will have problems with emulation for obvious reasons...

*Whilst thinking of a name for the main character, someone walked into the office and his name was "Mario". The rest is history.

*Quick fact 1: There was a major yen shortage in Japan when Space Invaders became popular.<br>
Quick fact 2: The concept of the pacman character was inspired by a sliced pizza!<br>
Quick fact 3: The one who made Gyruss then went on to create Streetfighter 2.

*Many arcade games were available to play at home at the time of production - on a console called the Neo Geo. Neo Geo Classics include... Metal Slug, Viewpoint, King of fighters, Samurai Showdown, Waku Waku 7)

*A pacman cartoon was derived from Pacman. Afterwards, a Pac-<i><b>land</b></i> game was then derived from the cartoon!


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Hi,

I wonder if you could help. I'm looking for trivia for my arcade games
page and I would like to know approximately how many arcade games in
existance there are - known - and the estimated unknown aswell :)

My page is at: www.skytopia.com/games/arcade/arcade.html

Hope you like it :)

Cheers,
Daniel (dspwhite@email.com)
mailto:unmamed_games@hotmail.com

http://www.wombat.zaq.ne.jp/auaen906/index.html