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The Games

Every game in both volumes, year by year.

All 252 games across the two volumes, in the order they appear in the books. Type in the box to find a game or a maker.

Volume One 1972–1980 138 games

The book’s year-by-year chapters begin in 1975. The handful of earlier games, from 1972 to 1974, are included alongside them.

1972

  • 21 Blackjack Radio Shack
  • Electro Tic-Tac-Toe Waco

1973

  • Comput-A-Dice Waco

1974

  • Charlie the Super Electronic Mini-Organ Maker unconfirmed

1975

  • Flashpoint Screen Art Enterprises
  • Roulette Otron
  • The Dice Jolly Products

1976

  • Auto Race Mattel Electronics

1977

  • Blip Tomy
  • Dataman Texas Instruments
  • Electronic Master Mind Invicta Games
  • Logic 5 Milton Bradley
  • Monkey See Radio Shack (cat. 60-3006)

1978

  • Alien Invaders Shira
  • Amaze-A-Tron Coleco
  • Arcade Attack Tomy
  • Armor Battle Mattel Electronics
  • Baseball Mattel Electronics
  • Bestech Missile Eidai Grip
  • Black Racer Tomy
  • Bowling 300 Ahi
  • Casino 21 Epoch
  • Compu-Bowl Tomy for Sears
  • Compute-A-Tune Waddingtons
  • Demon Driver Tomy
  • Elecroad Bandai
  • Football Sears
  • Football II Mattel Electronics
  • Foto-Electronic Bowling Cadaco
  • Hockey Mattel Electronics
  • Intercept Lakeside Games
  • Little Professor Texas Instruments
  • Mathemagician APF Electronics
  • Mind Boggler Mattel Electronics
  • Scrabble Sensor Selchow & Righter
  • Simon Milton Bradley
  • Soccer Mattel Electronics
  • Space Alert Mattel Electronics
  • Space Shot with Timer Yonezawa
  • Speak & Spell Texas Instruments
  • Sub Chase Mattel Electronics
  • The Game Machine Waddingtons
  • Touch Me Atari

1979

  • Alien Avenger Shinsei
  • Attack Invader Bandai
  • Baseball Entex
  • Basketball Bambino
  • Blockbuster MB Electronics
  • Brain Baffler Mattel Electronics
  • Computer Perfection Lakeside Games
  • Dentist Waddingtons
  • Dr. Smith Tomy
  • Easy Dice Menorcrest
  • Einstein Castle Toy Co.
  • Electronic Concentration LJN Toys
  • Electronic Detective Ideal
  • Electronic Hockey Entex
  • Electronic Poker Entex
  • Follow Me Sears
  • Football Toytronic
  • Football Bambino
  • Head to Head Hockey Coleco
  • Ice Hockey Bambino
  • Lightning Luke Corgi
  • Major Morgan Playskool
  • Maniac Ideal
  • Merlin Parker Brothers
  • Missile Strike Tomy
  • Name That Tune Castle Toy Co.
  • Pools Prospector Elrom
  • Professor Einstein Maker unconfirmed
  • Red Light Green Light Mattel Electronics
  • Rocket Pinball Tiger Electronics
  • Soccer Temco
  • Soccer Grandstand
  • Soccer Entex
  • Soccer Bambino
  • Solitaire Grandstand
  • Space Attack Tomy
  • Space Battle Entex
  • Space Laser Fight Bambino
  • Spelling ABC Texas Instruments
  • Star Wars Kenner
  • Super-Sonic Invicta Games
  • UFO Master-Blaster Bambino
  • Wildfire Parker Brothers
  • Zap! Coleco
  • Zodiac Coleco

1980

  • Basketball Tomy
  • Blast It Entex
  • Champion Racer Bandai
  • Computerized Chess Tandy
  • Cue Ball (Bank Shot in the USA) Palitoy (Parker Brothers licence)
  • Detective Shoestring Epoch
  • Electric Bowling Tomland
  • Electron Blaster Vanity Fair
  • Electronic Striker Tomy
  • Exec-U-Play Imaginamics
  • Executive Decision Maker Tandy
  • Fabulous Fred Mego
  • Fire Away Tandy
  • FL Battle Beam Bandai
  • FL Beam Galaxian Bandai
  • Galaxian Bandai
  • Galaxy Invader 1000 CGL
  • Genius MB Electronics
  • Gunfighter Bandai
  • Head to Head Coleco
  • Head to Head Football Coleco
  • Hockey Bandai for Sears Canada
  • Jackpot Entex
  • Jimmy Waddingtons
  • Math Marvel Texas Instruments
  • Melody Madness GAF
  • Milton Milton Bradley
  • Missile Invader Bandai
  • Mr Subattack Bandai
  • Musical Marvin Entex
  • Newport 500 Castle Toy Co.
  • Pocket Simon MB Electronics
  • Power House Pinball Tomy
  • Quiz Machine Toybox
  • Racetrack Toytronic
  • Raise the Devil Entex
  • Sound FX Phasor Electroplay
  • Space Invader Entex
  • Space Invaders & Block Buster Ramtex
  • Spaceship Pinball Toytronic
  • Speak & Maths Texas Instruments
  • Speak & Read Texas Instruments
  • Split Second Parker Brothers
  • Strobe Lakeside Games
  • Super Simon Milton Bradley
  • Tactix Castle Toy Co.
  • Tennis Tomy
  • Tennis Entex
  • Torpedo Shoot Bandai
  • Yacht Four Union Major

Volume Two 1981–1985 and beyond 114 games

1981

  • Alien Attack Coleco
  • Amidar Gakken
  • Astro Invader Entex
  • Astro Wars Epoch
  • Black Belt Action GT
  • Combat Pilot: Star Blazer Thomas Salter
  • Crazy Climbing Bandai
  • Crazy Kong Grandstand
  • Electronic Reaction Parker Brothers
  • FL Packri Monster Bandai
  • FL U-Boat Bandai
  • Football Tandy
  • Frogger CGL
  • Galactic Invaders Prinztronic
  • Galaxian Coleco
  • Galaxy Twinvader Hanzawa for CGL
  • Head to Head Boxing Coleco
  • Lightfight Milton Bradley
  • Mini Munchman Grandstand
  • Munchman Tomy
  • Music Challenger IV Westrak
  • Musical Challenger X 12 Westrak
  • Ogre Eater Tandy
  • Pac-Man Coleco
  • PacMan2 Entex
  • Pak-Pak Man II Epoch
  • Pass Me! Electroplay
  • Pocket Repeat Tandy
  • Pomcard 5 Shinsei
  • Quiz Wiz Coleco
  • Race ’N’ Chase Bambino
  • Reflex Parker Brothers
  • Safari Bambino
  • Super Space Invader 2 Entex
  • Super Space-Jack Onko Electronics
  • Swat Swat Coleco
  • The Big Game Grandstand
  • Total Control 4 Coleco
  • Tron Tomy

1982

  • Alien Attack Tomy
  • Arcade Defender Entex
  • Caveman Tomy
  • Changeman FL Bandai
  • Cosmic Scramble Hanzawa
  • Donkey Kong Coleco
  • Dracula House Epoch
  • Earth Invaders CGL
  • Fitter Gakken
  • Flipper Électronique Radofin (attributed)
  • Frogger Coleco
  • Galaxy Invader 10000 CGL
  • Great Escape Tsukuda
  • Jet Fighters Gakken
  • Jungler Gakken
  • Kingman Tomy
  • Lupin Tomy
  • Maximus Playskool
  • Monkey See (1982 edition) Radio Shack (cat. 60-1013)
  • Monster Chase Innovator Electronics
  • Paint Roller Gakken
  • Puck Monster Gakken
  • Scramble Epoch
  • Space Shot Tandy
  • Stargate Entex
  • Super Cobra Gakken
  • Super Cobra Entex
  • Super Kong CGL
  • The Dracula Tsukuda
  • Turtles Entex
  • Zaxxon Coleco

1983

  • 3-D Shark Attack Tomy
  • 3D Dogfight Tomy
  • Basketball Gakken
  • BMX Flyer Tomy for Grandstand
  • Computer Pinball Epoch
  • Computerized Arcade Radio Shack
  • Cosmic 2000 Tandy
  • Dig Dug Gakken
  • Donkey Kong Jr. Nintendo
  • Firefox F-7 Grandstand
  • Golf Tandy
  • Mario’s Cement Factory Nintendo
  • Monty Plays Scrabble Ritam
  • Ms. Pac-Man Coleco
  • Pengo FL Bandai
  • Planet Zeon Tomy
  • Pocket Scramble Grandstand
  • Popeye Nintendo
  • Q*bert Parker Brothers
  • Sky Attack Tomy
  • Skyfighters Tomy
  • Slot Elepachi FL Tsukuda
  • Snoopy Nintendo
  • Thundering Turbo Tomy
  • Zig Zag Monster Epoch

1984

  • Alien Chase Tomy
  • Hyper Olympic Bandai
  • Miracle Pinball Casio
  • My First Computer Grandstand
  • Pair Match Bandai
  • Star Force Epoch
  • Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends Grandstand
  • Trivia Timer Tiger Electronics

1985

  • Space Turbo Tomy

Extra Credit the odd ones out, 1965–2013

  • Magic Brain Chadwick · 1965
  • Animator Ohio Art · 1986
  • Mini Wizard VTech · 1987
  • Wizard VTech · 1987
  • Copy Cat Tiger Electronics · 1988
  • Electronic Pinball Tandy · 1989
  • Barcode Battler Epoch · 1991
  • Lock-On Sega · 1992
  • Lights Out Tiger Electronics · 1995
  • Game Robot 50 Hanayama · 2013