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Sega's Periscope let players sight through a submarine viewfinder at ships crossing on chains, firing torpedoes traced by sequenced lights. It sold well in Japan, was exported widely, and pushed American arcade prices up to a quarter.
A price point and a trade route were established here. The quarter play funded bigger and more ambitious machines in American arcades, and the successful export of a Japanese cabinet set the precedent that Taito, Namco, Nintendo and Sega itself would follow with video games in the 1970s and 1980s.
