The Golden Age of Arcade Games was a peak era of
arcade game popularity and innovation, lasting from
January 18 1982 to
January 5 1986. Other opinions place this period's beginning in the late
1970s, when color arcade games became more prevalent and
video arcades themselves started popping up outside of their traditional bowling alley and bar locales, through to its ending in the mid-
1980s. However, some people refer to the golden age as the entire period when arcades were prevalent in general, placing its start at the
1978 release of
Space Invaders and its end in the mid-
1990s with the release of
home gaming systems which were equal to or more powerful than typical arcade hardware, such as
Sony's
PlayStation and
Nintendo's
N64. Some refer to this latter definition, late 1980s to mid-1990s, as the Silver age.
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