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An arcade video game takes player input from its controls, processes it through electrical or computerized components, and displays output to an electronic monitor or similar display. Most arcade video games are coin-operated, housed in an arcade cabinet, and located in amusement arcades alongside other kinds of arcade games. Until the late 1990s, arcade video games were the largest and most technologically advanced segment of the video game industry.


A player in Japan playing Police 911, an arcade game in which players use a light gun
Early prototypical entries Galaxy Game and Computer Space in 1971 established the principle operations for arcade games, and Atari's Pong in 1972 is recognized as the first successful commercial arcade video game. Improvements in computer technology and gameplay design led to a golden age of arcade video games, the exact dates of which are debated but range from the late 1970s to mid-1980s. This golden age includes Space Invaders, Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong. The arcade industry had a resurgence from the early 1990s to mid-2000s, including Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, and Dance Dance Revolution, but ultimately declined in the Western world as competing home video game consoles such as the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox increased in their graphics and gameplay capability and decreased in cost. Nevertheless, Japan, China, and Korea retain a strong arcade industry in the present day.
For arcade games, success is usually judged by either the number of arcade hardware units sold to operators, or the amount of revenue generated. The revenue can include the coin drop earnings from coins (such as quarters, dollars, or 100 yen coins) inserted into machines,and/or the earnings from hardware sales with each unit costing thousands of dollars. Most of the revenue figures listed below are incomplete as they only include hardware sales revenue, due to a lack of available data for coin drop earnings which typically account for the majority of a hit arcade game's gross revenue. This list only includes arcade games that either sold more than 10,000 hardware units or generated a revenue of more than $10 million. Most of the games listed were released between the golden age of arcade video games (1978–1984) and the 1990s.

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Game Release year Hardware units sold Estimated gross revenue
Pac-Man 1980 400,000 (until 1982)
Space Invaders 1978 750,000 (until 1979)[48] $3.8 billion (until 1982)[49] $15.1 billion
Street Fighter II 1991 221,000+ (until 1995)[n 1]
Donkey Kong 1981
Ms. Pac-Man 1982 125,000 (until 1988)[59][60] $1.5 billion (until 1995)[61] $3 billion
Asteroids 1979 100,000 (until 2001)[60][62] $800 million (until 1991)[63][64] $2.28 billion
Defender 1981 70,000 (until 2020)[65] $1.5 billion (until 2020)[65] $2.16 billion
Print Club (Purikura) 1995 45,000 (until 1997)[66] $283 million
(1997 hardware sales)[66] $481 million
(1997 hardware sales)
Centipede 1981 55,988 (until 1991)[67] $115.65 million
(hardware sales until 1991)[67] $220 million
(hardware sales)
Galaxian 1979 50,000 (in the US until 1982)[68]
Virtua Fighter 1993 40,000+ (until 1996)[69]
Virtua Fighter 2 1994 40,000+ (until 1996)[70]
Tekken 2 1995 40,000 (until 1996)[71]
Starhorse2 2005 38,614 (until 2009)[n 3] $59.321 million (until 2011)
(Fifth Expansion)[n 4] $78.6 million
(Fifth Expansion)
Hyper Olympic (Track & Field) 1983 38,000 (1983 in Japan)[82]
Tekken 3 1996 35,000 (in 1997)[83]
Donkey Kong Jr. 1982 30,000 (1982 in the US)[84]
Mr. Do! 1982 30,000 (1982 in the US)[85]
Karate Champ 1984 30,000 (in the US until 1985)[86]
Out Run 1986 30,000 (until 1994)[87] $100 million+ (cabinet sales)[88] $240 million (cabinet sales)
Final Fight 1989 30,000 (until 1991)[89]
Virtua Fighter 3 1996 30,000 (until 1997)[83]
NBA Jam 1993 20,000 (until 2013)[90] $2 billion (until 2013)[91] $2.9 billion
World Club Champion Football 2002 2,479 (until 2009)[n 6] $706.014 million (until 2012)[95] $1.02 billion
Mortal Kombat II 1993 27,000 (until 2002)[96] $600 million (until 2002)[97] $932 million
Frogger 1981 $135 million+(US hardware sales)[98] $384 million
(US hardware sales)
Tempest 1981 29,000 (until 1983)[99] $62.408 million
(hardware sales until 1991)[67] $119 million
(hardware sales)
Q*bert 1982 25,000 (until 2001)[100]
Teenage Mutant Ninja T
Mortal Kombat 1992 24,000 (until 2002)[96] $570 million (until 2002)[96] $820 million
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors 1994 24,000[105]
Robotron: 2084 1982 23,000 (until 1983)[99]
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