Top game of each Arcade Manufacturer

[Zonie]

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?)

 

[VectorGamer]

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.

[Zonie]

No, my bad. Not my top pics, but my top guess as to probably the best earning titles...

[zzip]

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)

[x=usr(1536)]

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.

[mr_me]

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

[Nebulon]

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

[enoofu]

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

[Inky]

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

[AguyinarRPG]

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".

[butterburp]

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 - Tempest
Taito - Qix
Nintendo - 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 - Venture
Cinematronics - Dragon's Lair
Namco - Pole Position
Konami - Gyruss
Butt - Crazy Climber
Gremlin - Astro Fighter (originally by Data East)

[8_is_enuff]

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

[S.BAZ]

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

[S.BAZ]

Jaleco: Rod-Land