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Overview of the events of 1975 in video games From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1975 had new titles such as Western Gun, Dungeon and dnd. The year's best-selling arcade game was Taito's Speed Race, released as Wheels and Wheels II in North America.
The "paddle game" trend came to an end in arcades around 1975, with the arcade video game industry entering a period of stagnation in the "post paddle game era" over the next several years up until 1977.[1]
The following titles were the best-selling arcade video games of 1975 in the United States, according to annual arcade cabinet sales figures provided by Ralph H. Baer.[2]
Rank | Title | Arcade cabinet sales | Developer | Manufacturer | Genre |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Wheels / Wheels II (Speed Race) | 10,000 | Taito | Midway Manufacturing | Racing |
2 | Tank / Tank II | 6,000 | Kee Games | Kee Games | Maze |
3 | Flim-Flam | 4,000 | Meadows Games | Meadows Games | Pong |
Gran Trak 20 | 4,000 | Atari, Inc. | Atari, Inc. | Racing | |
5 | PT-109 | 1,500 | Mirco Games | Mirco Games | Shooter |
6 | Avenger | 1,000 | Electra Games | Electra Games | |
7 | Crash 'N Score | 500 | Atari, Inc. | Atari, Inc. | Driving |
Gun Fight (Western Gun) | 500 | Taito | Midway Manufacturing | Shooter | |
Jet Fighter | 500 | Atari, Inc. | Atari, Inc. | ||
Shark Jaws | 500 | Atari, Inc. | Atari, Inc. | Action | |
Steeplechase | 500 | Atari, Inc. | Atari, Inc. | Racing |
In the United States, RePlay magazine published the first annual chart of top-grossing arcade games in March 1976, listing both video games and electro-mechanical games (EM games) on the same chart for the previous year. The following were the highest-grossing arcade games of the previous year, in terms of coin drop earnings.[3]
Rank | Arcade video games | Arcade electro-mechanical games (EM games) | ||||
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Title | Overall rank | Genre | Title | Overall rank | Genre | |
1 | Tank / Tank II | 1 | Maze | Super Shifter | 4 | Racing |
2 | Wheels / Wheels II (Speed Race) | 2 | Racing | Air Hockey | 6 | Air hockey |
3 | Gun Fight (Western Gun) | 3 | Shooter | Wizard | 7 | Pinball |
4 | Indy 800 | 5 | Racing | Skee Ball | 9 | Skee-Ball |
5 | Gran Trak 10 / Gran Trak 20 | 8 | Racing | F-114 | 10 | Shooter |
6 | Twin Racer | 11 | Racing | OXO | 15 | Pinball |
7 | BiPlane | 12 | Shooter | Rifle Range | 16 | Gun |
8 | Racer (Speed Race) | 13 | Racing | Crown Basketball | 18 | Sports |
9 | Demolition Derby | 14 | Racing | Amigo | 19 | Pinball |
10 | Street Burners | 17 | Racing | Grand Prix | 20 | Racing |
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