Pinball, air hockey, were first.
Also a cheesy 1960s game called sky fighter or air combat or something... you stood up at the game and had a single hand controller as your joystick and gun from a fighter... you were placed behind the image of an enemy MiG fighter on a screen with a background of clouds puffy clouds mixed with blue sky and you had to chase that thing down and shoot it.
I'll see if I can find an image in the exact name of the game later.
EDITED TO ADD: No, I just looked at images of several late 1960s to early 1970s electromechanical coin operated games that involved to air combat themes but none of them seem like what I had in my local arcade which at that time was at Como Mall in the town of Cheektowaga
(or was it West Seneca ?) New York.
By the 1980s I liked several arcade games I think missile command Gallagher Pac-Man and asteroids were my favorites.
I remember "dragons lair" as the first interactive "story" game where you got to choose which path to take after a certain point in the play but I don't think I was much of a fan.
Also a cheesy 1960s game called sky fighter or air combat or something... you stood up at the game and had a single hand controller as your joystick and gun from a fighter... you were placed behind the image of an enemy MiG fighter on a screen with a background of clouds puffy clouds mixed with blue sky and you had to chase that thing down and shoot it.
I'll see if I can find an image in the exact name of the game later.
EDITED TO ADD: No, I just looked at images of several late 1960s to early 1970s electromechanical coin operated games that involved to air combat themes but none of them seem like what I had in my local arcade which at that time was at Como Mall in the town of Cheektowaga
(or was it West Seneca ?) New York.
By the 1980s I liked several arcade games I think missile command Gallagher Pac-Man and asteroids were my favorites.
I remember "dragons lair" as the first interactive "story" game where you got to choose which path to take after a certain point in the play but I don't think I was much of a fan.
