1984 in video gaming
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Events
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 (Broderbund), an early real-time strategy game, is released.
- Paperboy (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.
Hardware
- Milton Bradley Company distributes the Vectrex home console.
- RDI Systems releases the Halcyon laserdisc home console.
Business
- New companies: Kemco, Accolade
- Defunct companies: Astrocade Inc., FTL Games (developer and publisher)
- Hasbro, Inc. acquires Milton Bradley Company
- Warner Communications Inc. sells Atari, Inc.; creates an entirely new division Atari Games Corp
- Sega and CSK merge to form Sega Enterprises Ltd.
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