Asteroids is essentially a one-player version of Spacewar! (the first computer-based video game), featuring the "wedge" ship from the original and promoting the asteroids to be the main opponent.

("shmup" for short), is a video game where the player has limited control of their character and the focus is almost entirely on annihilation of their enemies.

A simple yet addictive arcade game developed by Taito in 1986. In the game, a layer of bricks lines the top third of the screen. A ball travels across the screen, bouncing off the top and side walls of the screen. When the ball hits a brick, the ball bounces off and the brick disappears.

The player controls a long, thin creature, resembling a snake, which roams around on a bordered plane, picking up food and trying to avoid hitting its own tail or the "walls" that surround the playing area. Each time the snake eats a piece of food, its tail grows longer, making the game increasingly difficult.

The purpose of the game is to align (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) five or more balls of the same color. Warning: addictive!

An arcade video game created by Tomohiro Nishikado. Released in 1978, it ranks as one of the most influential video games ever created.

A video game created by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo, named after the Italian landlord, Mario Segali.

A game created by Toru Iwatani for Namco in 1980. Immensely popular from its first release through today, it is universally considered one of the classics of the medium and an icon of 1980s popular culture.

A game in which a tank controlled by a player is moving around a playing field and shooting. First version of a game was released by Atari in 1974.

An adaptation of table tennis to the video screen, was the first commercially successful video game and is widely regarded as ushering in the video game era.

A game invented by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985, while he was working for the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, inspired by a pentominoes game he had purchased earlier.