The feature film was filmed in 1983, released to theaters in 1989 ( though it was never widely distributed ), and was later released on VHS and laserdisc.

The film was later released on VHS and laserdisc in 1983 by MCA / Universal Home Video and by Goodtimes Home Video in 1996.

Dragon's Lair is a laserdisc video game published by Cinematronics in 1983.

The original USA 1983 game used a single side NTSC laserdisc player manufactured by Pioneer ; the other side of the disc was metal backed to prevent bending.

DAPHNE, an emulator for laserdisc based games, can emulate the original 1983 version.

In 1983 teaming up with Rick Dyer, from Advanced Microcomputer Systems, Bluth, Goldman and Pomeroy started the Bluth Group and created the groundbreaking arcade game Dragon's Lair, which let the player control a cartoon-animated character on screen ( whose adventures were played off a laserdisc ).

It was unveiled in October 1983, just four months after the Dragon's Lair game, then released in Spring 1984, and like its predecessor featured film-quality animation played back from a laserdisc.

* Cliff Hanger ( 1983 ) ( laserdisc game using video footage from TMS )

While laserdisc games were usually either shooter games with full-motion video backdrops like Astron Belt or interactive movies like Dragon's Lair, Data East's 1983 game Bega's Battle introduced a new form of video game storytelling: using brief full-motion video cutscenes to develop a story between the game's shooting stages, which would years later become the standard approach to video game storytelling.

The first laserdisc game to gain popularity in the United States was Dragon's Lair in 1983.

In 1983 and 1984, Fullmer worked for Don Bluth Studios, creating special effects for Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, the first video games to be produced on laserdisc.

Astron Belt is an early laserdisc video game and third-person space combat rail shooter, released in 1983 by Sega in Japan and licensed to Bally Midway for release in the United States.

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.

In 1983, a video game called Keystone Kapers was released for the Atari 2600, 5200, and later Colecovision.

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.