Rich, Mark (2000). 100 Greatest Baby Boomer Toys. Krause Publications. pp.87–88. ISBN 0-87341-880-8 . Retrieved 21 October 2020. Airball Arcade game designers have always been a creative bunch, generally willing to try any idea (no matter how strange it… They appeared as a video game arcade in many Dave & Buster's locations when it debuted and opened on December 26, 2016. Tron It came as no surprise that Tron hit the arcades at the same time as its 1982 film counterpart. This… Al Capp’s syndicated comic strip, Li’l Abner had a strip that ran in newspapers on July 18, 1937 which featured a fighting robot. What drives this robot to fight? According to the professor who invented him, “My robot is perfect — except for one flaw — he becomes a savage murderous machine of destruction in the presence of smoke – simple tobacco smoke.” Li’l Abner by Al Capp (July 18, 1937 Charleston Gazette)

Canyon Bomber Part of the beauty of early arcade games was the preponderance of "truth in advertising". What you read was what… There have been many variations of the toy, such as a Transformers version, in which the two robots are Optimus Prime and Megatron. The robots’ human masters took the control levers that jutted out from the ring, got a firm grip, and sent their plastic bots into battle. The game has multiple different colored characters, each with different stats(however most of them are the same). In the character selection, each robot has a different head, but are all the same in-game. From 1948, the International Mutoscope Corporation had a coin operated arcade machine called Silver Gloves featuring two players controlling the movement and arms of two boxing figures. [2] [3]Walsh, Tim (2005). Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Andrews McMeel. pp.164–165. ISBN 9780740755712 . Retrieved 21 October 2020. The reason is simple: Engineers can build a robot that will possess everything except brains. And without brains no man can ever attain championship class in the boxing game. It is true enough that we have had some rare intellectual specimens in the higher frames of boxing glory, but I can truthfully say that no man ever attained genuine boxing recognition without real headwork. The best punch in the world is not worth a whoop if the boxer doesn’t know what to do with it.” Tetris Tetris was invented in 1984 by Alexey Pazhitnov, a researcher at the Computer Centre of the USSR Academy of scientists… Dig Dug This maze arcade game was developed by Namco in 1981 and released in 1982, licensed and distributed by Atari. The…

Two pugilistic robots, built by the Veronda brothers, of California, recently staged a furious six round boxing match in which they slugged each other’s metal bodies with all the realism of a human fight. The actions of the mechanical fighters were controlled by short wave radio. At the height of the fray, however, the wires got crossed somewhere. With smoke rising from their innards the fighters lost their heads and began lashing out wildly, dealing terrific clouts with both fists. Finally one robot went down and the other collapsed on top of him. It’s interesting to notice the shift in attitudes toward smoking in the 1930s, when U.S. tobacco companies had started to spend a great deal more money on advertising in the wake of alcohol Prohibition and the temperance movement. The robot in this comic most likely represented those who opposed smoking. As K Michael Cummings notes in his 2002 paper “Programs and policies to discourage the use of tobacco products”:

Those were the basics of robot-to-robot combat, but every kid had his own strategy to outbox his fellow robot masters. Paxton, Bill (2019). A World Without Reality: Inside Marvin Glass's Toy Vault. Bill Paxton. pp.179–181. ISBN 978-0578405261.