Video game manufacturers used the 68000 as the backbone of many arcade games and home game consoles: Atari's Food Fight, from 1982, was one of the first 68000-based arcade games.

The technique grew out of the multiplane camera technique used in traditional animation since the 1940s, and was popularized in the 1982 arcade game Moon Patrol.

In 1982, Atari attempted to take advantage of the craze following the arcade game Pac-Man by releasing a version for the Atari 2600.

* According to the storyline of the 1982 arcade video game Robotron: 2084, in 2084 man perfects the Robotrons, a robot species so advanced that man is inferior to his own creation.

Millipede is a 1982 arcade game by Atari, Inc. and is the sequel to the arcade hit, Centipede.

* Eyes ( arcade game ), a 1982 arcade game

* Tron ( arcade game ), a 1982 arcade game based on Tron.

* Loco-Motion ( arcade game ), a 1982 arcade game by Konami

Zaxxon is a 1982 isometric shooter arcade game developed and released by Sega.

* Swimmer ( arcade game ), a 1982 arcade game.

Joust is an arcade game developed by Williams Electronics and released in 1982.

* Pac-Man ( Atari 2600 ), a famous 1982 port of the arcade game for the Atari 2600

In 1982, the company started developing and manufacturing arcade video games ; as a result Japan Leisure Corporation shortened its brand name to Jaleco in 1982 and formally changed its name to Jaleco Ltd in 1983.

is a 1982 arcade game created by Data East for its DECO Cassette System.

While this allowed for inclusion of music in early arcade video games, it was usually monophonic, looped or used sparingly between stages or at the start of a new game, such as the Namco titles Pac-Man ( 1980 ) composed by Toshio Kai or Pole Position ( 1982 ) composed by Nobuyuki Ohnogi.

This was further improved upon by Namco's 1982 arcade game Dig Dug, where the music stopped when the player stopped moving.

Sega's 1982 arcade game Super Locomotive featured a chiptune rendition of Yellow Magic Orchestra's " Rydeen " ( 1979 ); several later computer games also covered the song, such as Trooper Truck ( 1983 ) by Rabbit Software as well as Daley Thompson's Decathlon ( 1984 ) and Stryker's Run ( 1986 ) composed by Martin Galway.

Space Invaders would go on to sell over 360, 000 arcade cabinets worldwide, and by 1982, generate a revenue of $ 2 billion in quarters, equivalent to $ 4. 6 billion in 2011.

The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a higher end complementary console for the popular Atari 2600.

“ A good video can sell a record which might not do so well ," Bubbles told Smash Hits magazine in 1982.

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries ' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982.

In 1982, the demise of disco in the mainstream by the summer of 1982 forced many nightclubs to either close or change entertainment styles, such as by providing MTV-style video dancing or live bands.

At these shows, Devo performed a new stage show utilizing synchronized video, similar to the 1982 tour, new costumes, and three new songs: " Don't Shoot, I'm a Man!

Original 1982 cinema and video releases of the movie had been seized, making the movie successful on the black market video circuit with pirated copies abounding.

* Hack ( Unix video game ), written in 1982

The company was founded in May 1982 as the video game development group of Lucasfilm Limited, the film production company of George Lucas.

The MCG was the home of Australia ’ s first full colour video scoreboard, which replaced the old scoreboard in 1982, located on Level 4 of the Ponsford Stand, with a second video screen added in 1994 almost directly opposite, located on Level 4 of the Olympic stand ..

Shortly after The Texas Chain Saw Massacre established itself as a success on home video in 1982, Wizard Video released a mass-market video game adaptation for the Atari 2600.

* War of the Worlds ( video game ), a 1982 video game by Tim Skelly of Cinematronics

* The music video for English rock band Queen's 1982 release Calling All Girls features singer Freddie Mercury dressed all in white in a stark white setting with robot police performing tests on him until his band can rescue him.

* Thief ( Apple II video game ), a 1982 computer game for the Apple II

* Blade Runner ( 1997 ), a video game adaptation of Blade Runner ( 1982 film )

One of his better known roles was in the 1982 science fiction cult classic Tron, in which he played Kevin Flynn, a video game programmer ( a role he reprised in late 2010 with the sequel Tron: Legacy ).

Toshiba is responsible for a number of Japanese firsts, including radar ( 1942 ), the TAC digital computer ( 1954 ), transistor television and microwave oven ( 1959 ), color video phone ( 1971 ), Japanese word processor ( 1978 ), MRI system ( 1982 ), laptop personal computer ( 1986 ), NAND EEPROM ( 1991 ), DVD ( 1995 ), the Libretto sub-notebook personal computer ( 1996 ) and HD DVD ( 2005 ).

The film has been released on video in its entirety in various European, Latin American, and Asian countries — in the UK it was released on PAL VHS tape in 1982 and again in 1991, and in Japan ( where under Japanese copyright law it is in the public domain ) it appeared on NTSC VHS, BETA and laserdisc with subtitles, while a NTSC laserdisc was bootlegged in Hong Kong from the UK PAL videotape.

In 1982, Fonda released her first exercise video, titled Jane Fonda's Workout, inspired by her best-selling book, Jane Fonda's Workout Book.

The sales of home video games had dropped considerably during this period, from $ 3 billion in 1982 to as low as $ 100 million in 1985, leading to bankruptcy for many game companies at the time.

By 1989, home video game sales in the United States had reached $ 5 billion, surpassing the 1982 peak of $ 3 billion during the previous generation.

On August 22, 1982, Glenn Brummer stole home in the bottom of the 12th inning of a tie game, thus accomplishing a walk-off straight steal of home, one of the very few in major league history.

Fantasy Games Unlimited published a second edition of the game in 1982, and the game was modified and republished by Steve Jackson Games as an official GURPS supplement in 1992.

By Christmas of 1982, Coleco had sold more than 500, 000 units, in part on the strength of its bundled game.

* Zork III: The Dungeon Master, a 1982 computer game

The Washington Redskins, after wearing white exclusively in the ' 80s and ' 90s, including the 1982 NFC Championship Game ( having gone 3 – 0 in them during the regular season, during CBS ' pregame show, Jimmy " The Greek " Snyder actually invoked the blue jerseys in picking Dallas to win the game ), have since 2002 occasionally reverted to using their burgundy jerseys for second-half home games, but will still wear white against the Cowboys.

Under Ron Greenwood they managed to qualify for the 1982 World Cup in Spain ( the first time competitively since 1962 ), but were eliminated from a second qualifying round comprising further group matches without losing a game all tournament.

It took until 1982 for the two bodies to merge, but this allowed the introduction of women's field hockey to the Olympic games from 1980 where, as in the men's game, The Netherlands, Germany, and Australia have been consistently strong.

Golden Heroes is a superhero role-playing game that was originally written and published on an amateur basis in 1982.

The two teams met twice a year ( interrupted in 1982 by a player strike ) 1970 – 2001 ; with the move of the Colts to the AFC South the two teams ' rivalry actually escalated, as they met three times in the playoffs in the South's first nine seasons of existence ; the Jets crushed the Colts 41 – 0 in the 2002 Wild Card playoff round ; the Colts then defeated the Jets 30 – 17 in the 2009 AFC Championship Game ; but the next year in the Wild Card round the Jets pulled off another playoff upset of the Colts, winning 17 – 16 ; it was Peyton Manning's final playoff game with the Colts.

In the 1982 Big Game between Stanford and California, with four seconds left and trailing by one point, Cal ran the ball back on a kickoff all the way for the game-winning touchdown using five backward passes, eventually running through the Stanford Band, who had already taken the field ( believing the game was over after Stanford players appeared to have tackled a Cal ball-carrier ).

The Vikings played their first game at the Metrodome in a preseason matchup against the Seattle Seahawks on August 21, 1982 in a game Minnesota won, 7 – 3.

The first regular-season game in the Metrodome was the 1982 opener on September 12, when the Vikings defeated Tampa Bay, 17 – 10.

Nomic is a game created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber in which the rules of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually beginning through a system of democratic voting.

During the strike shortened 1982 season, Fouts averaged what is still a record of 320 yards passing per game.

The December 20th, 1982 Cincinnati game was a rematch of the 1981 AFC Championship Game.

Star Frontiers is a science fiction role-playing game produced by TSR beginning in 1982.