Editing 1980s (section)

===Video gaming===
{{See also|1980s in video gaming}}

Popular video games include ''[[Pac-Man]]'', ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy (video game)|Final Fantasy]]'', [[Castlevania (1986 video game)|''Castlevania'']], ''[[Metroid (video game)|Metroid]]'', [[Mega Man (1987 video game)|''Mega Man'']], ''[[Donkey Kong (arcade game)|Donkey Kong]]'', ''[[Frogger]]'', ''[[Dig Dug]]'', and ''[[Tetris]]''.
''Pac-Man'' was the first game to achieve widespread popularity in mainstream culture and the first game character to be popular in his own right.

Handheld [[History of video games#Handheld LCD games|electronic LCD games]] was introduced into the youth market segment. The primary gaming computers of the 1980s emerged in 1982: the [[Commodore 64]] and [[ZX Spectrum]].
[[Nintendo]] finally decided in 1985 to release its Famicom (released in 1983 in Japan) in the United States under the name [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] (NES). It was bundled with ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' and it suddenly became a success. The NES dominated the American and Japanese market until the rise of the next generation of consoles in the early 1990s, causing some to call this time the ''[[Nintendo era]]''. [[Sega]] released its 16-bit console, [[Mega Drive|Mega Drive/Genesis]], in 1988 in Japan and in North America in 1989.
In 1989, Nintendo released the [[Game Boy]], a monochrome handheld console.
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File:PacmanUserbox.gif|The game ''[[Pac-Man]]'' (1980) became immensely popular and an icon of 1980s popular culture
File:Game & Watch WS- Snoopy Tennis.jpg|[[Game & Watch]] was the popular mobile game during the decade until it was replaced in the early 1990s with more advanced [[Game Boy]].
File:Kingman - micro computer game by Tomy.jpg|Micro computer game by [[Tomy]]
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