Notable events of 1984 in video gaming. See also history of computer and video games. Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... see also: 1983 in games, 1985 in games Games Released or Invented in 1984 Axis and Allies BattleTech Conquest of the Empire Paranoia Game awards given in 1984 Spiel des Jahres: Railway Rivals (German title is Dampfross) - David Watts, Schmidt Spiele See also 1984 in video gaming Categories: | ... 1983 1983 in games 1982 in video gaming 1984 in video gaming Notable events of 1983 in computer and video games. ... 1985 1985 in games 1984 in video gaming 1986 in video gaming Notable events of 1985 in video gaming. ... Home video-game systems became popular during the 1970s and 80s. ...

Events

Notable releases

• Alley Cat is released for IBM PC compatibles
• King's Quest (Sierra, IBM PC), the first animated adventure game, the first in the King's Quest series, and the first to use the AGI engine.
• Namco releases Gaplus, Tower of Druaga, Pac-Land, which is the first side-scrolling platformer, Grobda, which is a Xevious spin-off, Super Xevious and Dragon Buster, which is the first game to use a life bar.
• Nintendo releases Balloon Fight.
• The Ancient Art of War by Dave Murry and Barry Murry, the first major real-time strategy game, is released by Brøderbund.
• Paperboy by David Ralston Atari, arcade game), later ported to many platforms, featured innovative bike handle steering controller.
• Elite by David Braben and Ian Bell is published by Acornsoft, an early and very influential wireframe 3d space trading game offering full six degrees of freedom and a then unique open ended design.
• Knight Lore by Ultimate Play The Game is released for the ZX Spectrum (and later ported to the BBC Micro, Amstrad CPC, MSX and Famicom Disk System). Knight Lore is the third title in the Sabreman series but the first to use the innovative isometric Filmation engine.
• The Lords of Midnight, a groundbreaking strategy adventure game by Mike Singleton is released.

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Hardware

• RDI Systems releases the Halcyon laserdisc home console.

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Business

• New companies: Kemco, Accolade, New World Computing
• Defunct companies: Astrocade Inc., FTL Games (developer and publisher)
• Hasbro, Inc. acquires Milton Bradley Company
• Management Sciences America acquires Edu-Ware Services
• Warner Communications Inc. sells the Consumer Division of Atari, Inc. and creates an entirely new company (Atari Games Corp) out of the retained arcade division.
• Sega and CSK merge to form Sega Enterprises Ltd.