The new millennium is the thousand games for PC. But before the PC became a household phenomenon, the only type of games that children knew, and a whole generation of Americans have grown up playing, were arcade games.

Arcade games will consist of a simple but bulky machine with a color screen, and some sticks or buttons to play, and a device to put coins in, which allows the game to be played by a certain period of time.

Today, you can find arcade games that run on computers, using emulators. But before that happened, arcade games are found, apart from the special and entertainment video game at restaurants, malls and movie theaters. Children and adults alike played mainly three types of arcade games: the popular Pinball games, video games or redemption.

However, the descent of the arcade games could be attributed to the very popular games commonly known as the "amusement park, the midway games, like throwing the ball game and shooting galleries which were popular at the beginning of 20th century.

The 1930's saw the first coin-operated pinball machines. Despite being all of wood with mechanical and electronic functions instead of being far away from electronics to have come much later, were still affected. End of the seventies that these mechanical pinballs being replaced by electronic games.

The change in the lot of arcade games that happened with the formation of a company called Atari in 1972. This company created the coin-operated machine, starting with the electronic game of ping pong, called Pong. Pong was a huge success and led to even more home video game system which was introduced in the market.

Many games like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders became big hits in the late seventies and early eighties, paving the way for a revolution. The last breath to the arcade games was provided by the emergence of two players fighting games like Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat ¸ Fatal Fury, King of Fighters, etc in the early 90s. However, this was not to redeem the lot of arcade games completely, as the growth of computer and video technology saw the emergence of new types of games, including PC games and games that were particularly consoles like Playstation, Game Boy and X box games arcade push the margin to almost the end of its existence.