The industry entered a "Golden Age" in 1978 with the release of Taito's "Space Invaders", which introduced a number of novel gameplay features including tracking the highest score, leading to its popularity. From 1978 to 1982 several other major arcade games from Namco, Atari, Williams Electronics, Stern Electronics, and Nintendo were all considered blockbuster titles, particularly with Namco's "Pac-Man" in 1980 as the game became a popular culture fixture. Across North America and Japan, dedicated video game arcades appeared and arcade game cabinets appeared in many smaller storefronts. By 1981, the arcade video game industry was worth The novelty of the arcade game waned sharply after 1982 from several factors, including an oversaturation of the market with the number of arcade titles and arcades themselves, a moral panic created over video games due to similar fears that had been raised over pinball machines in the decades prior, and the 1983 video game crash in the home console market that impacted arcades. By 1991, US arcade video game revenues had fallen to .