Joysticks were commonly used as controllers in first and second generation game consoles, but they gave way to the familiar game pad with the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System during the mid-1980s, though joysticks — especially arcade-style one — were and are popular after-market add-ons for any console.

* Tyrian ( video game ), an arcade-style shooter video game by Epic Megagames

* Mini Racing Online, an arcade-style, online multiplayer racing game

The project was designed as arcade-style from the start, as core members of the team like Kusunoki came from Sega's arcade department, and they wanted to create a fully 3D arcade game ( since games they had previously worked on like Outrun were only 3D games with 2D sprites ).

Nintendo suggested the " arcade-style shooting " element of the game and Argonaut brought the idea of using space ships.

Comix Zone is a arcade-style action game.

The " Pooka Line " track, which is the first in the game, has a giant screen with a Pooka and Fygar chasing Dig Dug's protagonist in arcade-style graphics, which changes to him inflating a Pooka when the player takes the lead.

Prior to the division between arcade-style racing and sim racing, the earliest attempts at providing driving simulation experiences were arcade racing video games, dating back to Pole Position, a 1982 arcade game developed by Namco, which the game's publisher Atari publicized for its " unbelievable driving realism " in providing a Formula 1 experience behind a racing wheel at the time.

is a 1982 arcade-style platform video game by Nintendo.

Like its predecessor, Donkey Kong, Jr. is an arcade-style platform game.

In August 2008, Nintendo Power listed it as the sixth best Nintendo Entertainment System video game, praising it for putting arcade-style fun over realism.

As opposed to the more realistic hockey gameplay seen in Electronic Arts ' NHL series, the game featured a more unrealistic arcade-style of gameplay, featuring moves such as " power saves ", which caused the goaltender to briefly transform into a brick wall, " power shots ", which would set the net on fire or knock the goalie into the net, and " power checks ", which would send an ambulance across the top of the screen.

She has also recorded her lines for the arcade-style Tomb Raider game, titled Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, released in August 2010.

David Zydrko of IGN described it as " a must-have package for fans of arcade-style action games ", adding, " if you don't mind the fact that it's a very short game, you owe it to yourself to add this game to your collection ".

It was also voted best arcade-style game of the year at the Golden Joystick Awards.

* Mouse Stampede, arguably the first arcade-style game available for the Apple Macintosh ( 1984 )

This was the first time that management features had been included in an arcade-style soccer game, and the identities of the players were reinforced with a rudimentary on-screen commentary, another ground-breaking feature.

The game is notable for the high level of detail in the recreations of the various cities and states used, and for its fast arcade-style physics.

The game features a futuristic representation of San Francisco and an arcade-style physics engine.

Sheet music display: Add a classic notation view to the game in addition to the arcade-style falling note display.

The game cartridge included two features other than the game itself — an arcade-style puzzle game titled Fish Fall, which was interspersed with Bible verses, and a sing-along of " The Ride ", a song by Christian pop band 4Him.

A more arcade-style golf game called CyberTiger was released for the Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Game Boy Color.

Older arcade-style games became particularly popular on mobile phones, which were an ideal platform for arcade-style games designed for shorter play sessions.

The 6502-based Apple II was not designed to support fast graphics and collision detection, but Budge mastered these problems and the game ran with such speed and visual accuracy that it stood head-and-shoulders above other arcade-style games of its day.

Though not the first to implement it, Robotron: 2084s use of dual joysticks popularized the design among 2D shooting games, and has since been copied by other arcade-style games.

The Jammer is an arcade-style controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System made by Beeshu.

After Burner II is an arcade-style flight game released by Sega in 1987.

The Virtua Striker ( バーチャストライカー in Japanese ) video games are arcade-style football / soccer sports games by Sega.

Like the earlier Defender of the Crown, it was a mix of map-based strategy and arcade-style mini games as the player-one of famous Japanese generals Yoshitsune or Yoritomo-fights to pacify Japan by force.

Warhawk is a futuristic arcade-style flight-combat game for the Sony PlayStation console, developed by SingleTrac and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.

Enigmo and Enigmo 2 are respectively 2D and 3D arcade-style computer games for personal computer ( PC ), Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, iOS and PlayStation Minis developed by Pangea Software.

The game is very similar to other titles produced by Sega-its form is that of an arcade-style simulator that carries a variety of courses that range from easy to hard with a small selection of cars to choose from.

The price of Ultimate titles had previously been just £ 5. 50, which was typical for Spectrum arcade-style games at the time.

It was around this time that sim racing began distinguishing itself from arcade-style racing.

1997 saw the release of Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo, which was in production for five years since 1992, only behind the more arcade-style Need for Speed series ' 100 million copies.

Project Gotham Racing 3 ( PGR3 for short ) is an arcade-style racing game that was released with the launch of the Xbox 360 on November 22, 2005 for the US market and December 2, 2005 in Europe, and was released on January 12, 2006 in Japan.

Dirt: Showdown, an " arcade-style spin-off ", was announced on 11 December 2011.

While simple early arcade-style games still sold well, it was usually at a budget price.

The Bubble System was supposed to have a unique new form of data storage for arcade-style video games.

It was also the first statistics-based baseball simulation game on a video game console ; all prior console baseball games were arcade-style recreations of the sport.

In console-and arcade-style video games, the usage specifically implies a focus on combat with hand-to-hand weapons.

Most arcade-style driving games can be played with a simple joystick controller or even a mouse and keyboard.

Herzog Zwei is also considered one of the best two-player Genesis games, combining the arcade-style play of Technosoft's own Thunder Force series with a simple, easy-to-grasp level of strategy.

Merle fends it off with her chess skill and Loaf resists it with an arcade-style simulation, but when Jack is playing Battleship, Bitz leaps onto the keyboard, overruling Merle's advice, and hits the wrong button.

Airforce Delta features simplistic controls with an emphasis on arcade-style action rather than accurate flight simulation.

Obitus is essentially a role-playing video game, but with some arcade-style action as well.

With the September 2005 release of Boss Hunter: Revenge is Sweet !, an office-themed arcade-style game where the player chases their boss with a wide variety of work-related weaponry and early 2007 launch of Defender of the Crown: Heroes Live Forever, eGames began a ground-up game development efforts.