Zonie Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 This should be fun...These are my top pics. Not all are listed. This is for original games created by each company, not licensed ones, such as Bally-Midway Pac Man, for example. Atari – Asteroids Taito – Space Invaders Nintendo – Donkey Kong Williams – Defender/Stargate Exidy – Star Fire Cinematronics – Star Castle Namco Pac Man (this one was hard, I prefer Galaxian/Galaga) Konami – Gyruss Nitchibtusu – Moon Cresta Gremlin - Carnival Bally-Midway – ??? (What did they publish that was their own work other than pinball machines?) Kee Games - Tank (Yeah, it's Atari, but what wasn't from Kee?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted July 9, 2018 Share Posted July 9, 2018 These are my top pics. Namco Pac Man (this one was hard, I prefer Galaxian/Galaga) Not sure what this thread is about. You say these are your top pics then say you prefer Galaxian or Galaga when picking Pac-Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted July 10, 2018 Author Share Posted July 10, 2018 No, my bad. Not my top pics, but my top guess as to probably the best earning titles... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted July 10, 2018 Share Posted July 10, 2018 Atari - Gauntlet Sega - idk Frogger? Williams - Joust Gottlieb - Q*Bert Cinematronics - Dragon's Lair Universal - Mr. Do! Nintendo - Donkey Kong Namco - Pacman Bally/Midway - Ms. Pacman (I believe they did this without Namco's consent) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 No, my bad. Not my top pics, but my top guess as to probably the best earning titles... Pretty much anything released after about 1982 (at least in North America) won't have earned as much as the seriously-popular games released before then. That's not to say that all games released after that point didn't earn - there are a lot of examples that clearly did. But from about 1983 onwards the wave of success for arcade games was much reduced from what it had been before then. And to clear up one point: Kee Games were essentially an Atari subsidiary. Separate from Atari as a business entity, but exclusively taking 100% of Atari's output that Atari, for one reason or another, came to the conclusion should be released either under a different company name or both another and their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted July 11, 2018 Share Posted July 11, 2018 (edited) Atari - Gauntlet Sega - idk Frogger? Williams - Joust Gottlieb - Q*Bert Cinematronics - Dragon's Lair Universal - Mr. Do! Nintendo - Donkey Kong Namco - Pacman Bally/Midway - Ms. Pacman (I believe they did this without Namco's consent) Namco was involved with the development of Ms. Pac-man. Namco's president himself provided input. It's a midway game but it's still a hack of namco's pacman. I'm not sure if this thread is about their most successfull game or best game. But I like namco's pole position and atari's missile command. Sega's most successfull game is Outrun and konami's is Scramble. Williams' is Defender. Atari's is Asteroids. Edited July 11, 2018 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebulon Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 (edited) Atari - Major Havoc Taito - Front Line Nintendo - Donkey Kong Jr. Williams - Sinistar Exidy - Mousetrap Cinematronics - Space Wars (with Dragon's Lair most likely being their highest earner) Namco - Galaga Konami - Gyruss Nitchibtusu - Moon Cresta Gremlin - Carnival SEGA-Gremlin - Star Trek the strategic operations simulator SEGA - Zaxxon Bally/Midway - TRON Gottlieb - Q*Bert Universal - Mr. Do Stern - Frenzy Edited July 16, 2018 by Nebulon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enoofu Posted July 21, 2018 Share Posted July 21, 2018 Irem - R-Type Cave - Do Donpachi Psikyo- Strikers 1945 II Toaplan - Truxton II / Tatsujin Oh //Close one since Dogyuun is so good Capcom - Vampire Savior 2 Sega - Zaxxon SNK - Ikari Warriors Taito - RayForce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Favorites are tough to discuss, but as of this moment, here's mine. Atari - Tempest Williams - Robotron Gottlieb - Q*Bert Data East - Burgertime Nichubutsu - Crazy Climber Sega -Zaxxon Konami - Gyruss Stern - Frenzy Nintendo - Mario Bros. Namco - Xevious Bally / Midway - Tapper Exidy - Crossbow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AguyinarRPG Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Are you talking about earnings or are you talking about units? Unit sales are something I have some specific information on from various sources. Earnings are hard to measure except when you have something extraordinary like "NBA Jam taking in a billion dollars in quarters". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterburp Posted July 29, 2018 Share Posted July 29, 2018 Ooh, this is going to be tough because I don't always know who the manufacturer vs distributor is. I'll give it a shot.Atari - TempestTaito - QixNintendo - Donkey Kong (I grew up with the Crazy Kong bootleg at my aunt's deli)Williams - Didn't like any of the arcade games, they were all too hard for me. So I'll go with Slugfest with the baseball cards.Exidy - VentureCinematronics - Dragon's LairNamco - Pole PositionKonami - GyrussButt - Crazy ClimberGremlin - Astro Fighter (originally by Data East) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8_is_enuff Posted July 30, 2018 Share Posted July 30, 2018 I'm letting the young version of me vote on these. These are the ones I dropped the most quarters into back in the day. Atari - Red Baron Williams - Robotron Data East - Burgertime Nichubutsu - Moon Cresta Sega - Space Odyssey Konami - Frogger Nintendo - Donkey Kong Namco - Galaga Tecmo - Pleiades TOSE - Vanguard Bally / Midway - Ms. PacMan Exidy - Mousetrap Cinematronics - Armor Attack 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 Atari: Tetris Nintendo: Vs Super Mario Bros Williams: Robotron Konami: (Frogger?) Namco: Galaga Data East: Bad Dudes SNK: Guerrilla War Psikyo: Battle Garegga Cinematronics: Star Castle Sega: (Frogger?) Tecmo: Solomon's Key Capcom: Magic Sword Bally/Midway: Ms. Pac-Man Taito: Qix Technos: Double Dragon Gottlieb: Q*bert Gremlin: (Frogger?) Irem: Kung-Fu Master 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 Jaleco: Rod-Land 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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