It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.

Barney Bubbles ( born Colin Fulcher, 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983 ) was a radical English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction.

While Capcom's first product was the coin-operated Little League from July 1983, its first real video game, the arcade title Vulgus, was released in May 1984.

Sales quickly passed one million in early 1983, before the video game crash of 1983.

* The Dungeon Master ( video game ), a 1983 computer game

By 1983, Bowie had emerged as one of the most important video artists of the day.

Devo also contributed two songs, " Theme from Doctor Detroit " and " Luv-Luv " to the 1983 Dan Aykroyd film Doctor Detroit, and produced a music video for " Theme from Doctor Detroit " featuring clips from the film with live action segments.

SuperStation WTBS launched Night Tracks on June 3, 1983, with up to 14 hours of music video airplay each late night weekend by 1985.

Mecha have been featured in video games since the 1980s, particularly in vehicular combat and shooter games, including Sesame Japan's side-scrolling shooter game Vastar in 1983, various Gundam games such as the first-person shooters Mobile Suit Gundam: Last Shooting in 1984 and Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble in 1986, the run and gun shooters Hover Attack in 1984 and Thexder in 1985, and Arsys Software's 3D role-playing shooters WiBArm in 1986 and Star Cruiser in 1988.

This rule was created to prevent market over-saturation, which had contributed to the North American video game crash of 1983.

The Philips Videopac + G7400 was a video game console released in limited quantities in 1983, and only in Europe ; an American release as the Odyssey³ Command Center was planned but never occurred.

Also, the video game crash of 1983 ended all lingering hopes for a release.

The trio performed the single on the New York Hot Tracks video show in 1983.

was a Japanese video game company founded in September 1983 by Masashi Miyamoto.

Valhalla is referenced in the video game titles Valhalla ( 1983 ), Valhalla: Before the War ( 1995 ), Valkyrie Profile ( 2000 ), Max Payne ( 2001 ), Valhalla Knights ( 2006 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Halo 3 ( 2007 ), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ( 2011 ), and Final Fantasy XIII-2 ( 2011 ).

A video game named after the film was released for the ColecoVision in 1983.

North American video game crash of 1983

* Compile ( software company ), a Japanese video game company founded in 1983 ( now defunct ) that specialized in shoot ' em up and computer puzzle game genres

Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare is an interactive fiction video game written by Michael Berlyn and published by Infocom in 1983.

Category: 1983 video games

" Don't Cry " was a Top Ten single in the summer of 1983 and the video received considerable play on MTV, while " The Smile Has Left Your Eyes ", a fan favourite for John Wetton's vocal performance, charted inside of Billboard's Top 40.

Ex-King Crimson and ELP front man Greg Lake replaced Wetton for the highly publicised " Asia in Asia " concert at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan on 6 December 1983, which was the first concert broadcast over satellite to MTV in the U. S. and later made into a home video.

( A revised 2-port model was released in 1983, along with a game adapter that allowed gamers to play all 2600 games.

Hagi made his debut for the Romania national team at the age of 18 in 1983 in a game against Norway played in Oslo.

The Baltimore Colts played their final home game in Baltimore final on December 18, 1983 against the then Houston Oilers.

A fifth game, a children's title called Magic Carousel, was shelved, and in August 1983 the Intellivoice system was quietly phased out.

* 1983 – The Nintendo Entertainment System, the best-selling game console of its time, is released in Japan.

* 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.

On December 10, 1983 the Jets played their final game at Shea and lost to the Steelers 34 – 7.

The first such game offered via major e-mail services was WebWar II ( based on Starweb and licensed from Flying Buffalo ) from Neolithic Enterprises who accepted e-mail turns from all of the major E-Mail services including CompuServe in 1983.

Released in late 1983, the game was marketed via the announcement of a cash prize for the first person to solve the puzzle.

During this game, CBS would introduce a new theme that would be used the following season for the NFL Today pregame show between 1976 and 1981 in its original form, with a remake for 1982 followed by updates for 1983 and 1989 before its retirement.

The game was played on January 30, 1983 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

Super Bowl XVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Washington Redskins and the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Los Angeles Raiders to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1983 season.

The San Jose Mercury News reported that, " Philippe Kahn, who founded the company in 1983 and headed it until 1994, called the deal a ' great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

The first series, made in 1983, was called The Black Adder ( set in the fictional reign of " Richard IV ").

In 1983, the Turkish Cypriots declared an independent state called the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( TRNC ), an action opposed by the United Nations Security Council.

In 1983, Tramiel decided to focus on market share and cut the price of the VIC-20 and C64 dramatically, starting what would be called the " home computer war.

These clashes flared into another outbreak of serious fighting in January 1981 called the Paquisha War ; similar incidents occurred in 1983 and again in 1984.

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt ’ s “ natural role ” among Arab countries.

A U. S .- Caribbean force invaded Grenada on October 25, 1983 in an action called Operation Urgent Fury, and swiftly defeated the Grenadan forces and their Cuban allies.

In 1983 he started hosting a public television program on the side, called Computer Chronicles, that followed trends in personal computing.

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt ’ s “ natural role ” among Arab countries.

A version of the IBM PC called the 3270 PC, released in October 1983, included 3270 terminal emulation.

In 1983, he won the Pritzker Prize, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of architecture.

In 1983 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, sometimes called the Nobel Prize of architecture.

In 1983 L. Ron Hubbard was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an international information infiltration and theft project called " Operation Snow White ".

A Ruby-Spears-produced cartoon called Mister T premiered in 1983 on NBC.

On 3 February 1983, Fraser called a double dissolution election for 5 March, several months before it was due.

* In 1983 Robert Anton Wilson published a non-fiction book called Prometheus Rising ( which was followed by Quantum Psychology )

During its history the PNGDF has sent 400 troops to assist the Vanuatu government put down a secessionist revolt in 1980 and was called out in aid to the civil power in Port Moresby in 1983.

In 1983, a year before Limbaugh debuted as a political talk-show host, anarchist Bob Black wrote an essay called " Feminism as Fascism ".

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt's " natural role " among Arab countries.

Gaming magazine White Dwarf ran a comic strip called The Travellers by Mark Harrison from 1983 to 1986.

* In 1983, Czech Surrealist Jan Švankmajer directed a 15-minute short film called The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope, based on this story and the short story " A Torture by Hope " by Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam.

On November 7, 1983, a group called the Armed Resistance Unit claimed responsibility for a bomb that detonated in the lobby outside the office of Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd.

The ZX Interface 1 add-on module included 8 kB of ROM, an RS-232 serial port, a proprietary LAN interface ( called ZX Net ), and an interface for the connection of up to eight ZX Microdrives – somewhat unreliable but speedy tape-loop cartridge storage devices released in July 1983.