1984 in video gaming
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Notable events of 1984 in video gaming. See also history of computer and video games.
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[edit] Events
[edit] Notable releases
- Namco releases Gaplus, Tower of Druaga, Pac-Land, which is the first side-scrolling platformer, Grobda, which is a Xevious spin-off, Super Xevious and Dragon Buster, which is the first game to use a life bar.
- Nintendo releases Balloon Fight.
- King's Quest (Sierra, IBM PC), the first animated adventure game, the first in the King's Quest series, and the first to use the AGI engine.
- The Ancient Art of War by Dave Murry and Barry Murry, the first major real-time strategy game, is released by Brøderbund.
- Paperboy by David Ralston Atari, arcade game), later ported to many platforms, featured innovative bike handle steering controller.
- Elite by David Braben and Ian Bell is published by Acornsoft, an early and very influential wireframe 3d space trading game offering full six degrees of freedom and a then unique open ended design.
- The Lords of Midnight, a groundbreaking strategy adventure game by Mike Singleton is released.
[edit] Hardware
[edit] Business
- New companies: Kemco, Accolade, New World Computing
- Defunct companies: Astrocade Inc., FTL Games (developer and publisher)
- Hasbro, Inc. acquires Milton Bradley Company
- Management Sciences America acquires Edu-Ware Services
- Warner Communications Inc. sells the Consumer Division of Atari, Inc. and creates an entirely new company (Atari Games Corp) out of the retained arcade division.
- Sega and CSK merge to form Sega Enterprises Ltd.
