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Arcade & Classic Games · 50

Fixed screens force designers to make every object count because there is nowhere else for the action to hide. A related fact is worth keeping: Frogger turned crossing a road into a perfect arcade premise by making every lane a moving timing puzzle with almost no explanation required. The safest pattern works perfectly until the game becomes fast enough to expose that it was never safe.

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Space Invaders arrived in 1978 and helped turn videogame arcades into a mass phenomenon. Its descending rows of aliens created pressure with almost no story at all. A second surprise: Frogger turned crossing a road into arcade drama in 1981. Cars, logs, turtles and a time limit proved that a daily nuisance could become a perfect videogame premise.