document_title: Golden age of arcade video games

question_text: what is the most popular arcade game of all time

text: Golden age of arcade video games

text: Relevant time period[edit]

text: Although the exact years differ, all timelines overlap in the early 1980s. Technology journalist Jason Whittaker, in The Cyberspace Handbook, places the beginning of the golden age in 1978, with the release of Space Invaders.[1] Video game journalist Steven L. Kent, in his book The Ultimate History of Video Games, places it at 1979 to 1983.[2] The book pointed out that 1979 was the year that Space Invaders[3] – which he credits for ushering in the golden age[4] – was gaining considerable popularity in the United States,[3] and the year that saw the advent of vector display technology which in turn spawned many of the popular early arcade games. However, 1983 was the period that began "a fairly steady decline" in the coin-operated video game business and when many arcades started disappearing.[2]

text: The History of Computing Project places the golden age of video games between 1971 and 1983, covering the "mainstream appearance of video games as a consumer market" and "the rise of dedicated hardware systems and the origin of multi-game cartridge based systems".[5] 1971 was chosen as an earlier start date by the project for two reasons: the creator of Pong filed a pivotal patent regarding video game technology, and it was the release of the first arcade video game machine, Computer Space.[6]

text: Sean Newton, 3D arcade model builder and author of the book Bits, Sticks, and Buttons states that the defining transitional point which finally ended the first era of arcade gaming (known as the "Black and White Age") and subsequently ushered in the Golden Age was with the North American release of Midway's Space Invaders. The game brought forth with it the power of the microprocessor, as well as a cult phenomenon impact which had only been felt up to that point by Atari's Pong. Following Space Invaders, Atari's Asteroids and Namco's Pac-Man further solidified the strength of the Golden Age.[citation needed]

text: Other opinions place this period's beginning in the late 1970s, when color arcade games became more prevalent and video arcades themselves started appearing outside of their traditional bowling alley and bar locales, through to its ending in the mid-1980s.[7] The golden age of arcade games largely coincided with, and partly fueled, the second generation of game consoles and the microcomputer revolution.

text: Business[edit]

text: The golden age was a time of great technical and design creativity in arcade games. The era saw the rapid spread of video arcades across North America, Europe, and Asia. The number of video game arcades in North America, for example, more than doubled between 1980 and 1982;[8] reaching a peak of 10,000 video game arcades across the region (compared to 4,000 as of 1998).[9] Beginning with Space Invaders, video arcade games also started to appear in supermarkets, restaurants, liquor stores, gas stations and many other retail establishments looking for extra income.[10] Video game arcades at the time became as common as convenience stores, while arcade games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders would appear in most locations across the United States, including even funeral homes.[11] The sales of arcade video game machines increased significantly during this period, from $50 million in 1978 to $900 million in 1981,[8] with 500,000 arcade machines sold in the United States at prices ranging as high as $3000 in 1982 alone.[12] By 1982, there were 24,000 full arcades, 400,000 arcade street locations and 1.5 million arcade machines active in North America.[13] The market was very competitive; the average life span of an arcade game was four to six months. Some games like Robby Roto failed because they were too complex to learn quickly, and others like Star Fire because they were too unfamiliar to the audience. Qix was briefly very popular but, Taito's Keith Egging later said, "too mystifying for gamers ... impossible to master and when the novelty wore off, the game faded".[14] At around this time, the home video game industry (second-generation video game consoles and early home computer games) emerged as "an outgrowth of the widespread success of video arcades" at the time.[15]

text: In 1980, the U.S. arcade video game industry's revenue generated from quarters tripled to $2.8 billion.[16] By 1981, the arcade video game industry in the United States was generating an annual revenue of over $5 billion[1][17] with some estimates as high as $10.5 billion for all video games (arcade and home) in the U.S. that year, which would be three times the amount spent on movie tickets in 1981.[18] The total revenue for the U.S. arcade video game industry in 1981 was estimated at more than $7 billion[19] though some analysts estimated the real amount may have been much higher.[19] By 1982, video games accounted for 87% of the $8.9 billion in commercial games sales in the United States.[20] In 1982, the arcade video game industry's revenue in quarters was estimated at $8 billion[21] surpassing the annual gross revenue of both pop music ($4 billion) and Hollywood films ($3 billion) combined that year.[21][22] It also exceeded the revenues of all major sports combined at the time,[22] earning three times the combined ticket and television revenues of Major League Baseball, basketball, and American football, as well as earning twice as much as all the casinos in Nevada combined.[23] This was also more than twice as much revenue as the $3.8 billion generated by the home video game industry (during the second generation of consoles) that same year;[21] both the arcade and home markets combined added up to a total revenue between $11.8 billion and $12.8 billion for the U.S. video game industry in 1982. In comparison, the U.S. video game industry in 2011 generated total revenues between $16.3 billion and $16.6 billion.[24]

text: Prior to the golden age, pinball machines were more popular than video games. The pinball industry reached a peak of 200,000 machine sales and $2.3 billion revenue in 1979, which had declined to 33,000 machines and $464 million in 1982.[20] In comparison, the best-selling arcade games of the golden age, Space Invaders and Pac-Man, had each sold over 360,000[25] and 400,000[26] cabinets, respectively, with each machine costing between $2000 and $3000 (specifically $2400 in Pac-Man's case).[27] In addition, Space Invaders had grossed $2 billion in quarters by 1982,[22] while Pac-Man had grossed over $1 billion by 1981[28] and $2.5 billion by the late 1990s.[29][30] In 1982, Space Invaders was considered the highest-grossing entertainment product of its time, with comparisons made to the then highest-grossing film Star Wars,[22][31] which had grossed $486 million,[31] while Pac-Man is today considered the highest-grossing arcade game of all time.[32] Many other arcade games during the golden age also had hardware unit sales at least in the tens of thousands, including Ms. Pac-Man with over 115,000 units, Asteroids with 70,000,[11] Donkey Kong with over 60,000,[33] Defender with 55,000,[34] Galaxian with 40,000,[35] Donkey Kong Junior with 35,000,[33] Mr. Do! with 30,000,[36] and Tempest with 29,000 units.[37] A number of arcade games also generated revenues (from quarters) in the hundreds of millions, including Defender with more than $100 million[17] in addition to many more with revenues in the tens of millions, including Dragon's Lair with $48 million and Space Ace with $13 million.[38]

text: The most successful arcade game companies of this era included Taito (which ushered in the golden age with the shooter game Space Invaders[4] and produced other successful arcade action games such as Gun Fight and Jungle King), Namco (the Japanese company that created Galaxian, Pac-Man, Pole Position and Dig Dug) and Atari (the company that introduced video games into arcades with Computer Space and Pong, and later produced Asteroids). Other companies such as Sega (who later entered the home console market against its former arch rival, Nintendo), Nintendo (whose mascot, Mario, was introduced in 1981's Donkey Kong), Bally Midway Manufacturing Company (which was later purchased by Williams), Cinematronics, Konami, Centuri, Williams and SNK also gained popularity around this era.

text: Technology[edit]

text: Arcades catering to video games began to gain momentum in the late 1970s with games such as Space Invaders (1978), Asteroids (1979), and Galaxian (1979), and became widespread in 1980 with Pac-Man, Missile Command, Berzerk, Defender, and others. The central processing unit in these games allowed for more complexity than earlier discrete circuitry games such as Atari's Pong (1972). The arcade boom that began in the late 1970s is credited with establishing the basic techniques of interactive entertainment and for driving down hardware prices to the extent of allowing the PC to become a technological and economic reality.[39]

text: While color monitors had been used by several racing video games before (such as Indy 800[40] and Speed Race Twin[41]), it was during this period that RGB color graphics became widespread, following the release of Galaxian in 1979.[42] Namco's Rally-X in 1980 featured multi-directional scrolling,[43] and introduced a radar tracking the player position.[44] Sega's Space Tactics that year was a space combat game allowing multi-directional scrolling from a first-person perspective.[45] The following year, Namco's Bosconian allowed the player's ship to freely move across open space that scrolls in all directions.[46] By the early 1980s, scrolling had become popular among arcade video games and would make its way to third-generation consoles, where it would prove nearly as pivotal as the move to 3D graphics on later fifth-generation consoles.[47]

text: The Golden Age also saw developers experimenting with vector displays, which produced crisp lines that couldn't be duplicated by raster displays. A few of these vector games became great hits, such as 1979's Asteroids, 1980's Battlezone and Tempest and 1983's Star Wars from Atari, as well as 1982's Star Trek from Sega. However, vector technology fell out of favor with arcade game companies due to the high cost of repairing vector displays.

text: Several developers at the time were also experimenting with pseudo-3D and stereoscopic 3D using 2D sprites on raster displays. In 1979, Nintendo's Radar Scope introduced a three-dimensional third-person perspective to the shoot 'em up genre, later imitated by shooters such as Konami's Juno First and Activision's Beamrider in 1983.[48] In 1981, Sega's Turbo was the first racing game to feature a third-person rear view format,[49] and use sprite scaling with full-colour graphics.[50] Namco's Pole Position featured an improved rear-view racer format in 1982 that would remain the standard for the genre; the game provided a perspective view of the track, with its vanishing point swaying side to side as the player approaches corners, accurately simulating forward movement into the distance.[51] That same year, Sega released Zaxxon, which introduced the use of isometric graphics and shadows;[52] and SubRoc-3D, which introduced the use of stereoscopic 3D through a special eyepiece;[53]

text: This period also saw significant advances in digital audio technology. Space Invaders in 1978 was the first game to use a continuous background soundtrack, with four simple chromatic descending bass notes repeating in a loop, though it was dynamic and changed pace during stages.[54] Rally-X in 1980 was the first game to feature continuous background music,[55] which was generated using a dedicated sound chip, a Namco 3-channel PSG.[44] That same year saw the introduction of speech synthesis, which was first used in Stratovox, released by Sun Electronics in 1980,[55] followed soon after by Namco's King & Balloon, which was an early example of multiple CPUs, using two Z80 microprocessors, the second to drive a DAC for speech.[56] Multi-CPUs were used by several arcade games the following year, including Frogger, which used two Z80 microprocessors and an AY-3-8910 PSG sound chip,[57] and Scramble, which used two Z80 microprocessors and two AY-3-8910 sound chips.[58] In 1983, Gyruss, known for its stereo sound and musical score, utilized multi CPUs, which included two Z80 microprocessors, one 6809 microprocessor, and one 8039 microprocessor, along with five AY-3-8910 sound chips and a DAC for the sound.[59] That same year, the Namco Pole Position system used two Z8002 microprocessors and one Z80 microprocessor, along with a Namco 6-channel stereo PSG sound chip for the sound.[60]

text: Developers also experimented with laserdisc players for delivering full motion video based games with movie-quality animation. The first laserdisc video game to exploit this technology was 1983's Astron Belt from Sega,[61][62] soon followed by Dragon's Lair from Cinematronics; the latter was a sensation when it was released (and, in fact, the laserdisc players in many machines broke due to overuse). While laserdisc games were usually either shooter games with full-motion video backdrops like Astron Belt or interactive movies like Dragon's Lair, Data East's 1983 game Bega's Battle introduced a new form of video game storytelling: using brief full-motion video cutscenes to develop a story between the game's shooting stages, which would years later become the standard approach to video game storytelling. By the mid-1980s, the genre dwindled in popularity, as laserdiscs were losing out to the VHS format and the laserdisc games themselves were losing their novelty,[63] due to their linearity and, in many cases, depending less on reflexes than on memorizing sequences of moves.

text: Gameplay[edit]

text: With the enormous success of the early games, dozens of developers jumped into the development and manufacturing of video arcade games. Some simply copied the "invading alien hordes" idea of Space Invaders and turned out successful imitators like Namco's Galaxian, Galaga, and Gaplus, though they took the shoot 'em up genre further with new gameplay mechanics, more complex enemy patterns, and richer graphics.[64][65] Galaxian introduced a "risk-reward" concept,[66] while Galaga was one of the first games with a bonus stage.[67] Sega's 1980 release Space Tactics was an early first-person space combat game with multi-directional scrolling as the player moved the cross-hairs on the screen.[45]

text: Others tried new concepts and defined new genres. Rapidly evolving hardware allowed new kinds of games which allowed for different styles of gameplay. In 1980, Namco released Pac-Man, which popularized the maze chase genre, and Rally-X, which featured a radar tracking the player position on the map.[44] Games such as the pioneering 1981 games Donkey Kong and Qix in 1981 introduced new types of games where skill and timing are more important than shooting as fast as possible, with Nintendo's Donkey Kong in particular setting the template for the platform game genre.[68] Namco's Bosconian in 1981 introduced a free-roaming style of gameplay where the player's ship freely moves across open space, while also including a radar tracking player & enemy positions.[46] Bega's Battle in 1983 introduced a new form of video game storytelling: using brief full-motion video cutscenes to develop a story between the game's shooting stages.[63] Other examples of innovative games are Atari Games' Paperboy in 1984 where the goal is to successfully deliver newspapers to customers, and Namco's Phozon where the object is to duplicate a shape shown in the middle of the screen. The theme of Exidy's Venture is dungeon exploration and treasure-gathering. One innovative game, Q*Bert, played upon the user's sense of depth perception to deliver a novel experience.

text: Popular culture[edit]

text: Some games of this era were so popular that they entered popular culture. The first to do so was Space Invaders. The game was so popular upon its release in 1978 that an urban legend blamed it for a national shortage of 100 yen coins in Japan, leading to a production increase of coins to meet demand for the game[69][70] (although 100 yen coin production was lower in 1978 and 1979 than in previous or subsequent years,[71][72] and the claim does not withstand logical scrutiny: arcade operators would have emptied out their machines and taken the money to the bank, thus keeping the coins in circulation).[72] It would soon have a similar impact in North America, where it has appeared or is referenced in numerous facets of popular culture. Soon after the release of Space Invaders, hundreds of favourable articles and stories about the emerging video game medium aired on television and were printed in newspapers and magazines. The Space Invaders Tournament held by Atari in 1980 was the first video game competition and attracted more than 10,000 participants, establishing video gaming as a mainstream hobby.[73] By 1980, 86% of the 13–20 population in the United States had played arcade video games,[74] and by 1981, there were more than 35 million gamers visiting video game arcades in the United States.[75]

text: The game that most affected popular culture in North America was Pac-Man. Its release in 1980 caused such a sensation that it initiated what is now referred to as "Pac-Mania" (which later became the title of the last coin-operated game in the series, released in 1987). Released by Namco, the game featured a yellow, circle-shaped creature trying to eat dots through a maze while avoiding pursuing enemies. Though no one could agree what the "hero" or enemies represented (they were variously referred to as ghosts, goblins or monsters), the game was extremely popular. The game spawned an animated television series, numerous clones, Pac-Man-branded foods, toys, and a hit pop song, "Pac-Man Fever". The game's popularity was such that President Ronald Reagan congratulated a player for setting a record score in Pac-Man.[76] Pac-Man was also responsible for expanding the arcade game market to involve large numbers of female audiences across all age groups.[77] Though many popular games quickly entered the lexicon of popular culture, most have since left, and Pac-Man is unusual in remaining a recognized term in popular culture, along with Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Mario and Frogger.

text: Arcade games at the time affected on the music industry, revenues for which had declined by $400 million between 1978 and 1981 (from $4.1 billion to $3.7 billion), a decrease that was directly credited to the rise of arcade games at the time.[78] Successful songs based on video games also began appearing. The pioneering electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) sampled Space Invaders sounds in their 1978 self-titled album and the hit single "Computer Game" from the same album,[79] the latter selling over 400,000 copies in the United States.[80] In turn, YMO would have a major influence on much of the video game music produced during the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.[81] Other pop songs based on Space Invaders soon followed, including "Disco Space Invaders" (1979) by Funny Stuff,[79] "Space Invaders" (1980) by Playback,[82] and the hit songs "Space Invader" (1980) by The Pretenders[79] and "Space Invaders" (1980) by Uncle Vic.[83] The game was also the basis for Player One's "Space Invaders" (1979), which in turn provided the bassline for Jesse Saunders' "On and On" (1984),[84][85] the first Chicago house music track.[86] The song "Pac-Man Fever" reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over a million singles in 1982,[87] while the album Pac-Man Fever sold over a million records, with both receiving Gold certifications.[88] That same year, R. Cade and the Video Victims also produced an arcade-inspired album, Get Victimized, featuring songs such as "Donkey Kong".[89] In 1984, former YMO member Haruomi Hosono produced an album entirely from Namco arcade game samples entitled Video Game Music, an early example of a chiptune record[90] and the first video game music album.[91] Arcade game sounds also had a strong influence on the hip hop,[92] pop music (particularly synthpop)[93] and electro music genres during the early 1980s.[94] The booming success of video games at the time led to music magazine Billboard listing the 15 top-selling video games alongside their record charts by 1982.[15] More than a decade later, the first electroclash record, I-F's "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" (1997), has been described as "burbling electro in a vocodered homage to Atari-era hi-jinks",[95] particularly Space Invaders which it was named after.[96]

text: Arcade games also influenced the film industry; beginning with Space Invaders, arcade games began appearing at many movie theaters,[11] while early films based on video games were also produced, most notably Tron, which grossed over $33 million in 1982[97] which began the Tron franchise which included a video game adaptation that grossed more than the film.[98] Other films based on video games included the 1983 films WarGames (where Matthew Broderick plays Galaga at an arcade),[99] Nightmares, and Joysticks, the 1984 film The Last Starfighter, and the anime Super Mario Bros.: Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! in 1986. Arcades also appeared in many other films at the time, such as Dawn of the Dead (where they play Gun Fight and F-1) in 1978,[100] Used Cars and Midnight Madness in 1980, Take This Job and Shove It and Puberty Blues in 1981, the 1982 releases Rocky III, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Koyaanisqatsi and The Toy, the 1983 releases Psycho II, Spring Break and Never Say Never Again, the 1984 releases Footloose, The Karate Kid (where Elisabeth Shue plays Pac-Man), The Terminator and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, the 1985 releases Back to the Future, The Goonies and The Boys Next Door[101] and Ferris Bueller's Day Off[99] and Something Wild in 1986.[101]

text: In more recent years, there have been critically acclaimed films based on the golden age of arcade games, such as The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade in 2007. Since 2010, many arcade-related films have been released including Wreck It Ralph (2012) and Pixels (2015 film) (2015). Steven Spielberg is slated to direct Ready Player One another arcade-themed film based upon the novel by Ernest Cline.

text: Strategy guides[edit]

text: The period saw the emergence of a gaming media, publications dedicated to video games, in the form of video game journalism and strategy guides.[22] The enormous popularity of video arcade games led to the very first video game strategy guides;[102] these guides (rare to find today) discussed in detail the patterns and strategies of each game, including variations, to a degree that few guides seen since can match. "Turning the machine over"—making the score counter overflow and reset to zero—was often the final challenge of a game for those who mastered it, and the last obstacle to getting the highest score.

text: Some of these strategy guides sold hundreds of thousands of copies at prices ranging from $1.95 to $3.95 in 1982[102] (equivalent to between $5.00 and $10.00 in 2017).[103] That year, Ken Uston's Mastering Pac-Man sold 750,000 copies, reaching No. 5 on B. Dalton's mass-market bestseller list, while Bantam's How To Master the Video Games sold 600,000 copies, appearing on The New York Times mass-market paperback list.[102] By 1983, 1.7 million copies of Mastering Pac-Man had been printed.[104]

text: List of popular arcade games[edit]

text: The games below are some of the most popular and/or influential games of the era.[105]

text:
Legend

Vector display

Raster display

text:
Name
Year
Manufacturer
Notes

Space Invaders
1978
Taito (Japan) / Midway (U.S.)
Considered the game that revolutionized the video game industry.[106] The first blockbuster video game,[107] it established the shoot 'em up genre,[108] and has influenced most shooter games since.[109]

Galaxian
1979
Namco (Japan) / Midway (U.S.)
Created to compete with Space Invaders. Featured a color screen and had aliens attack in swooping formation.

Lunar Lander
1979
Atari
First Atari game to use vector graphics; most machines were converted to Asteroids before release.

Asteroids
1979
Atari
Atari's most successful coin-operated game.

Battlezone
1980
Atari
Custom cabinet with novel dual-joystick controls, using two 2-way joysticks for movement, and periscope-like viewer.[110] Also used as the basis for a military simulator.[111]

Berzerk
1980
Stern Electronics
Early use of speech synthesis was also translated into other languages in Europe.

Centipede
1980
Atari
One of the first games to use trackball control, vertical monitor orientation.

Missile Command
1980
Atari
One of the first games to use trackball control. Originally to have a localities-option that named the cities, but was determined too complicated.

Pac-Man
1980
Namco (Japan) / Midway (U.S.)
One of the most popular and influential games, it had the first gaming mascot, established maze chase genre, opened gaming to female audiences,[112] and introduced power-ups[113] and cutscenes.[114]

Phoenix
1980
Amstar Electronics / Centuri (U.S.) / Taito (Japan)
Notable for its haunting melody accompaniment. One of the first games to feature a boss battle.

Rally-X
1980
Namco
First game to feature a "bonus" round, background music,[115] and a radar.[44] When released, was predicted to outsell two other new releases: Pac-Man and Defender.

Star Castle
1980
Cinematronics
The colors of the rings and screen are provided by a transparent plastic screen overlay

Wizard of Wor
1980
Midway
Game featured maze-like dungeons infested with monsters and aliens.

Defender
1981
Williams Electronics
Was predicted to be outsold by Rally-X, but Defender trounced it, going on to sell 60,000 units

Tempest
1981
Atari
One of the first games to use a color vector display

Donkey Kong
1981
Nintendo
Laid foundations for platform game genre as well as visual storytelling in video games,[68] and introduced a carpenter protagonist named Jumpman, a character who would evolve into Nintendo's mascot, Mario in subsequent games.

Frogger
1981
Konami (Japan) / Sega-Gremlin (North America)
Novel gameplay free of fighting and shooting

Scramble
1981
Konami (Japan) / Stern (North America)
First scrolling shooter game, featuring forced horizontal scrolling motion

Galaga
1981
Namco (Japan) / Midway (North America)
Leapfrogged its predecessor, Galaxian, in popularity

Gorf
1981
Midway
Consisted of several levels, some of which were clones of other popular games. Featured synthesized speech.

Ms. Pac-Man
1981
Midway (North America) / Namco
Created from a bootlegged hack of Pac-Man.

Qix
1981
Taito
The objective is to fence off a supermajority of the play area

Vanguard
1981
SNK (Japan) / Centuri (US)
Early scrolling shooter that scrolls in multiple directions, and allows shooting in four directions,[116][117] using four direction buttons, similar to dual-stick controls.[118]

BurgerTime
1982
Data East (Japan) / Bally Midway (US)
Original title changed from Hamburger when brought to the U.S. from Japan

Dig Dug
1982
Namco (Japan) / Atari (North America)
Rated the sixth most popular coin-operated video game of all time[119]

Donkey Kong Junior
1982
Nintendo
Jumpman was renamed Mario in this sequel. This was the only time Nintendo's mascot was featured as an antagonist in any of their games.

Front Line
1982
Taito
While up to this point, military themed games featured vehicular combat such as ships, aircraft or tanks, this is one of the first of many 80s games to feature commando-style infantry ground combat (machine guns, grenades) as the theme. This genre of the vertical scrolling shoot em up game would gain much more popularity after the 1985 film Rambo: First Blood Part II

Joust
1982
Williams Electronics
Contained a design flaw so popular it was intentionally touted by producers as a "hidden feature"

Jungle King
1982
Taito
An early side-scrolling (and diagonal-scrolling) platformer, featuring vine-swinging mechanics, run & jump sequences, climbing hills, and swimming. Almost immediately re-released as Jungle Hunt due to a lawsuit from the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate claiming character copyright infringement on the character of Tarzan. This version changed the Tarzan character to a pith helmet-wearing white explorer.[120]

Moon Patrol
1982
Irem (Japan) / Williams Electronics (U.S.)
The first arcade game to feature parallax scrolling.[121]

Pengo
1982
Sega
A maze game set in an environment full of ice blocks, which can be used by the player's penguin, who can slide them to attack enemies.[122]

Pole Position
1982
Namco (Japan) / Atari (U.S.)
A racing video game that popularized the third-person "rear-view racer format" player perspective

Q*bert
1982
Gottlieb
Became one of the most merchandised arcade games behind Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.[123][124]

Robotron 2084
1982
Williams Electronics
Featured novel dual joystick gameplay

Gravitar
1982
Atari
Not popular in the arcades due to its difficulty, but historically significant as the gameplay inspired many popular clones like Thrust and Oids.

Time Pilot
1982
Konami (Japan) / Centuri (U.S.)
Time travel themed aerial combat game with free-roaming gameplay in open air space that scrolls indefinitely in all directions, with player's plane always remaining centered.[125][126][127]

Tron
1982
Bally Midway
Earned more than the film it was based on[128]

Xevious
1982
Namco (Japan) / Atari (U.S.)
The first arcade video game to have a TV commercial.[129] It was also responsible for popularizing vertical scrolling shooters.[64]

Zaxxon
1982
Sega
First game to employ isometric axonometric projection, which the game was named after

Dragon's Lair
1983
Cinematronics (U.S.) / Taito (Japan)
An early laserdisc video game, which allowed film-quality animation in the game.

Elevator Action
1983
Taito
An action game where the protagonist must traverse the building's numerous levels via a series of elevators and escalators while acquiring documents

Gyruss
1983
Konami (Japan) / Centuri (U.S.)
Often remembered for its musical score that plays throughout the game, Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor"[59]

Mappy
1983
Namco (Japan) / Bally Midway (U.S.)
Featured early side-scrolling platforming action

Mario Bros.
1983
Nintendo
A game featuring simultaneous play with Mario and his brother Luigi as Italian-American plumbers in pest-infested sewers.

Spy Hunter
1983
Bally Midway
Memorable for its music, "The Peter Gunn Theme", that plays throughout the game

Star Trek
1983
Sega
Space combat sim featuring five different controls, six different enemies, and 40 different simulation levels. One of the most elaborate vector games released.[130]

Star Wars
1983
Atari
Features several digitized samples of actors' voices from the movie

Tapper
1983
Bally Midway
Originally aligned with American beer Budweiser, was revamped as Root Beer Tapper, so as not to be construed as attempting to peddle alcohol to minors

Track & Field
1983
Konami (Japan) / Centuri (North America)
The first Olympic-themed sports game.

1942
1984
Capcom
Capcom's first hit game

Paperboy
1984
Atari
Novel controls and high resolution display

Punch-Out!!
1984
Nintendo
A boxing fighting game featuring digitized voices, dual monitors, a third-person perspective, and 3D wire-frame graphics.

text: List of best-selling arcade games[edit]

text: For arcade games, success was usually judged by either the number of arcade hardware units sold to operators, or the amount of revenue generated, from the number of coins (such as quarters or 100 yen coins) inserted into machines,[131] and/or the hardware sales (with arcade hardware prices often ranging from $1000 to $4000). This list only includes arcade games that have sold more than 10,000 hardware units.

text:
Pac-Man (400,000)[26]
Space Invaders (360,000)[25]
Donkey Kong (132,000)[132]
Ms. Pac-Man (115,000)[133]
Asteroids (100,000)[11][134]
Defender (60,000)[34][135]
Centipede (55,988)[136]
Galaxian (40,000 in the US)[35]
Donkey Kong Jr. (30,000 in the US)[132]
Mr. Do! (30,000 in the US)[36]
Tempest (29,000)[37]
Q*bert (25,000)[137]
Robotron: 2084 (23,000)[37]
Dig Dug (22,228 in the US)[136]
Pole Position (21,000 in the US)[37]
Popeye (20,000 in the US)[33]
Missile Command (20,000)[138]
Jungle Hunt (18,000 in the US)[139]
Dragon's Lair (16,000)[140]
Berzerk (15,780)[141]
Scramble (15,136 in the US)[141]
Battlezone (15,122)[142]
Stargate (15,000)[37]
Star Wars (12,695)[136]
Super Cobra (12,337 in the US)[141]
Space Duel (12,038)[136]

text: Decline and aftermath[edit]

text: The golden age cooled around the mid-1980s as copies of popular games began to saturate the arcades. Arcade video game revenues in the United States had declined from $8 billion in 1981 and $7 billion in 1982 to $5 billion in 1983,[143] reaching a low of $4 billion in 1986.[144] Despite this, arcades would remain commonplace through to the early 1990s as there were still new genres being explored. In 1987, arcades experienced a short resurgence with Double Dragon, which started the golden age of beat 'em up games, a genre that would peak in popularity with Final Fight two years later.[145] In 1988, arcade game revenues in the United States rose back up to $6.4 billion, largely due to the rising popularity of violent action games in the beat 'em up and run and gun shooter genres.[144] After yet another relative decline,[145] U.S. arcade video game revenues had fallen to $2.1 billion by 1991,[146] by which time the sales of arcade machines had declined, with 4000 unit sales being considered a hit at the time.[147]

text: One of the causes of decline was new generations of personal computers and video game consoles that sapped interest from arcades. In the early 1990s, the Genesis (Mega Drive outside most of North America) and Super NES (the Super Famicom in Japan) greatly improved home play and some of the technology was even integrated into a few video arcade machines.

text: Legacy[edit]

text: The Golden Age of Video Arcade Games spawned numerous cultural icons and even gave some companies their identity. Elements from games such as Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger, and Centipede are still recognized in today's popular culture.

text: Pac-Man and Dragon's Lair joined Pong for permanent display at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. for their cultural impact in the United States. No other video game has been inducted since.[148]

text: The success of these early video games has led many hobbyists who were teenagers during the Golden Age to collect some of these classic games. Since few have any commercial value any longer, they can be acquired for US$200 to US$750 (though fully restored games can cost much more).

text: Some fans of these games have companies devoted to restoring the classic games, and others, such as Arcade Renovations, which produces reproduction art for classic arcade games, focus solely on one facet of the restoration activity. Many of these restorers have set up websites full of tips and advice on restoring games to mint condition. There are also several newsgroups devoted to discussion around these games, and a few conventions, such as California Extreme,[149] dedicated to classic arcade gaming.


document_title: List of the longest-running Broadway shows

question_text: what is the longest running musical on broadway

root

text: List[edit]

text: Unless otherwise noted, the run count listed is for the original Broadway production of the show. M denotes a musical, P denotes a straight play, R denotes revue, D denotes a predominantly dance musical, and S denotes a special case. As of February 25, 2018. In situations where a production ran at multiple theatres, they are listed in order of most performances.

tag: p

text:
#
Title
Type
Opening
date
Closing
date
Performances
Comment

1.
The Phantom of the Opera
M
000000001988-01-26-0000January 26, 1988

12,518[1]
Currently running at the Majestic Theatre
7 Tony Awards in 1988, including Best Musical
7 Drama Desk Awards in 1988
Broadway's longest-running show and musical

2.
Chicago (1996 revival)
M
000000001996-11-14-0000November 14, 1996

8,843[2]
Currently running at the Ambassador Theatre
Revival
6 Tony Awards in 1997, including Best Revival of a Musical
6 Drama Desk Awards in 1997, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 1998
Original production in 1975 (936 performances)
Broadway's longest-running revival
Longest running show to have premiered on Broadway
Broadway's longest running American show

3.
The Lion King
M
000000001997-11-13-0000November 13, 1997

8,445[3]
Currently running at the Minskoff Theatre
6 Tony Awards in 1998, including Best Musical
8 Drama Desk Awards in 1998
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 1999
Longest-running Disney Theatrical Productions show
Highest-grossing Broadway show in history[4]

4.
Cats
M
000000001982-10-07-0000October 7, 1982
000000002000-09-10-0000September 10, 2000
7,485[5]
7 Tony Awards in 1983, including Best Musical
3 Drama Desk Awards in 1983
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1984
Revival in 2016 (593 performances)

5.
Les Misérables
M
000000001987-03-12-0000March 12, 1987
000000002003-05-18-0000May 18, 2003
6,680[6]
8 Tony Awards in 1987, including Best Musical
5 Drama Desk Awards in 1987, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Cast Show Album in 1988
Revivals in 2006 (463 performances) and 2014 (1,024 performances)

6.
A Chorus Line
M
000000001975-07-25-0000July 25, 1975
000000001990-04-28-0000April 28, 1990
6,137[7]
9 Tony Awards in 1976, including Best Musical
5 Drama Desk Awards in 1976, including Outstanding Musical
A Special Tony Award in 1984 for becoming Broadway's longest-running musical
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976
Revival in 2006 (759 performances)

7.
Wicked
M
000000002003-10-30-0000October 30, 2003

5,980[8]
Currently running at the Gershwin Theatre
3 Tony Awards in 2004
7 Drama Desk Awards in 2004, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2005

8.
Oh! Calcutta! (1976 revival)
R
000000001976-09-24-0000September 24, 1976
000000001989-08-06-0000August 6, 1989
5,959[9]
Revival
Original production in 1969 (1314 performances)
First revival to match its original for 1000+ performances
Broadway's longest-running revue

9.
Mamma Mia!
M
000000002001-10-18-0000October 18, 2001
000000002015-09-12-0000September 12, 2015
5,758[10]
Longest-running "jukebox musical" on Broadway

10.
Beauty and the Beast
M
000000001994-04-18-0000April 18, 1994
000000002007-07-29-0000July 29, 2007
5,461[11]
A Tony Award in 1994

11.
Rent
M
000000001996-04-29-0000April 29, 1996
000000002008-09-07-0000September 7, 2008
5,123[12]
4 Tony Awards in 1996, including Best Musical
6 Drama Desk Awards in 1996, including Outstanding Musical
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1996

12.
Jersey Boys
M
000000002005-11-06-0000November 6, 2005
000000002017-01-15-0000January 15, 2017
4,642[13]
4 Tony Awards in 2006, including Best Musical
2 Drama Desk Awards in 2006
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2007

13.
Miss Saigon
M
000000001991-04-11-0000April 11, 1991
000000002001-01-28-0000January 28, 2001
4,092[14]
3 Tony Awards in 1991
4 Drama Desk Awards in 1991
Revival in 2017 (340 performances)

14.
42nd Street
M
000000001980-08-25-0000August 25, 1980
000000001989-01-08-0000January 8, 1989
3,486[15]
2 Tony Awards in 1981, including Best Musical
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1981
Revival in 2001 (1,524 performances)

15.
Grease
M
000000001972-02-14-0000February 14, 1972
000000001980-04-13-0000April 13, 1980
3,388[16]
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1972
Revivals in 1994 (1,505 performances) and 2007 (554 performances)

16.
Fiddler on the Roof
M
000000001964-09-22-0000September 22, 1964
000000001972-07-02-0000July 2, 1972
3,242[17]
9 Tony Awards in 1965, including Best Musical
A Special Tony Award in 1972 for becoming Broadway's longest-running musical
Revivals in 1976 (167 performances), 1981 (53 performances), 1990, (241 performances), 2004 (781 performances), and 2015 (431 performances)

17.
Life With Father
P
000000001939-11-08-0000November 8, 1939
000000001947-07-12-0000July 12, 1947
3,224[18]
Broadway's longest-running straight play

18.
Tobacco Road
P
000000001933-12-04-0000December 4, 1933
000000001941-05-31-0000May 31, 1941
3,182[19]
Revivals in 1942 (34 performances), 1943 (66 performances), and 1950 (7 performances)

19.
The Book of Mormon
M
000000002011-03-24-0000March 24, 2011

2,898[20]
Currently running at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
9 Tony Awards in 2011, including Best Musical
5 Drama Desk Awards in 2011, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2012

20.
Hello, Dolly!
M
000000001964-01-16-0000January 16, 1964
000000001970-12-27-0000December 27, 1970
2,844[21]
10 Tony Awards in 1964, including Best Musical
A Drama Desk Award in 1970
Revivals in 1975 (42 performances), 1978 (147 performances), 1995 (116 performances), and 2017 (342 performances, currently running at the Shubert Theatre)

21.
My Fair Lady
M
000000001956-03-15-0000March 15, 1956
000000001962-09-29-0000September 29, 1962
2,717[22]
6 Tony Awards in 1957, including Best Musical
Revivals in 1976 (377 performances), 1981 (120 performances), 1993 (165 performances), and 2018

22.
Hairspray
M
000000002002-08-15-0000August 15, 2002
000000002009-01-04-0000January 4, 2009
2,642[23]
8 Tony Awards in 2003, including Best Musical
10 Drama Desk Awards in 2003, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2003

23.
Mary Poppins
M
000000002006-11-16-0000November 16, 2006
000000002013-03-03-0000March 3, 2013
2,619[24]
A Tony Award in 2007
2 Drama Desk Awards in 2007

24.
Avenue Q
M
000000002003-07-31-0000July 31, 2003
000000002009-09-13-0000September 13, 2009
2,534[25]
3 Tony Awards in 2004, including Best Musical

25.
The Producers
M
000000002001-04-19-0000April 19, 2001
000000002007-04-22-0000April 22, 2007
2,502[26]
12 Tony Awards in 2001, including Best Musical
11 Drama Desk Awards in 2001, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2002
Most Tony Awards won by a production

26.
Annie
M
000000001977-04-21-0000April 21, 1977
000000001983-01-02-0000January 2, 1983
2,377[27]
7 Tony Awards in 1977, including Best Musical
7 Drama Desk Awards in 1977, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1978
Revivals in 1997 (239 performances) and 2012 (487 performances)

Cabaret (1998 revival)
M
000000001998-03-19-0000March 19, 1998
000000002004-01-04-0000January 4, 2004
2,377[28]
Revival
4 Tony Awards in 1998, including Best Revival of a Musical
3 Drama Desk Awards in 1998, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Original production in 1966 (1165 performances) and revivals in 1987 (261 performances) and 2014 (388 performances)

28.
Man of La Mancha
M
000000001965-11-22-0000November 22, 1965
000000001971-06-26-0000June 26, 1971
2,328[29]
5 Tony Awards in 1966, including Best Musical
Revivals in 1972 (140 performances), 1977 (124 performances), 1992 (108 performances), and 2002 (304 performances)

Rock of Ages
M
000000002009-04-07-0000April 7, 2009
000000002015-01-18-0000January 18, 2015
2,328[30]

30.
Abie's Irish Rose
P
000000001922-05-23-0000May 23, 1922
000000001927-10-01-0000October 1, 1927
2,327[31]
Revivals in 1937 (46 performances) and 1954 (20 performances)

31.
Oklahoma!
M
000000001943-03-31-0000March 31, 1943
000000001948-05-29-0000May 29, 1948
2,212[32]
A Special Tony Award in 1993 for the show's 50th anniversary
Revivals in 1951 (100 performances), 1953 (40 performances), 1979 (293 performances), and 2002 (388 performances)

32.
Kinky Boots
M
000000002013-04-04-0000April 4, 2013

2,042[33]
Currently running at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre
6 Tony Awards in 2013, including Best Musical
A Drama Desk Award in 2013
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2014

33.
Smokey Joe's Cafe
R
000000001995-03-02-0000March 2, 1995
000000002000-01-16-0000January 16, 2000
2,036[34]
Broadway's longest running original music revue. The longest running musical revue, Oh! Calcutta!, was a revival.

34.
Pippin
M
000000001972-10-23-0000October 23, 1972
000000001977-06-12-0000June 12, 1977
1,944[35]
5 Tony Awards in 1973
5 Drama Desk Awards in 1973
Revival in 2013 (709 performances)

35.
South Pacific
M
000000001949-04-07-0000April 7, 1949
000000001954-01-16-0000January 16, 1954
1,925[36]
10 Tony Awards in 1950, including Best Musical
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950
Revivals in 1955 (15 performances) and 2008 (996 performances)

36.
The Magic Show
M
000000001974-05-28-0000May 28, 1974
000000001978-12-31-0000December 31, 1978
1,920[37]

37.
Aida
M
000000002000-03-23-0000March 23, 2000
000000002004-09-05-0000September 5, 2004
1,852[38]
4 Tony Awards in 2000
A Drama Desk Award in 2000
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2001

38.
Gemini
P
000000001977-05-21-0000May 21, 1977
000000001981-09-06-0000September 6, 1981
1,819[39]

39.
Deathtrap
P
000000001978-02-26-0000February 26, 1978
000000001982-06-13-0000June 13, 1982
1,793[40]

40.
Harvey
P
000000001944-11-01-0000November 1, 1944
000000001949-01-15-0000January 15, 1949
1,775[41]
Revival in 1970 (79 performances) and 2012 (62 performances)

41.
Dancin'
D
000000001978-03-27-0000March 27, 1978
000000001982-06-27-0000June 27, 1982
1,774[42]
2 Tony Awards in 1978
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1978
Broadway's longest-running dance musical

42.
La Cage aux Folles
M
000000001983-08-21-0000August 21, 1983
000000001987-11-15-0000November 15, 1987
1,761[43]
6 Tony Awards in 1984, including Best Musical
3 Drama Desk Awards in 1984
Revivals in 2004 (229 performances) and 2010 (433 performances)

43.
Hair
M
000000001968-04-29-0000April 29, 1968
000000001972-07-01-0000July 1, 1972
1,750[44]
A Drama Desk Award in 1968
Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album in 1969
Revivals in 1977 (43 performances), 2004 (1 benefit performance), 2009 (519 performances), and 2011 (67 performances)

44.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
M
000000002014-01-12-0000January 12, 2014

1,720[45]
Currently running at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre
2 Tony Awards in 2014
3 Drama Desk Awards in 2014
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2015

45.
The Wiz
M
000000001975-01-05-0000January 5, 1975
000000001979-01-28-0000January 28, 1979
1,672[46]
7 Tony Awards in 1975, including Best Musical
5 Drama Desk Awards in 1975, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1976
Revival in 1984 (13 performances)

46.
Aladdin
M
000000002014-03-20-0000March 20, 2014

1,650[47]
Currently running at the New Amsterdam Theatre
A Tony Award in 2014
A Drama Desk Award in 2014

47.
Born Yesterday
P
000000001946-02-04-0000February 4, 1946
000000001949-12-31-0000December 31, 1949
1,642[48]
Revivals in 1989 (153 performances) and 2011 (73 performances)

48.
Crazy for You
M
000000001992-02-19-0000February 19, 1992
000000001996-01-07-0000January 7, 1996
1,622[49]
3 Tony Awards in 1992, including Best Musical
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1992, including Outstanding Musical

49.
Ain't Misbehavin'
R
000000001978-05-09-0000May 9, 1978
000000001982-02-21-0000February 21, 1982
1,604[50]
3 Tony Awards in 1978, including Best Musical
3 Drama Desk Awards in 1978, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1979
Revival in 1988 (176 performances)

50.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
M
000000001978-06-19-0000June 19, 1978
000000001982-03-27-0000March 27, 1982
1,584[51]
2 Tony Awards in 1979
3 Drama Desk Awards in 1978
Revivals in 1982 (63 performances) and 2006 (1 benefit performance)

51.
Spamalot
M
000000002005-03-17-0000March 17, 2005
000000002009-01-11-0000January 11, 2009
1,575[52]
3 Tony Awards in 2005, including Best Musical
3 Drama Desk Awards in 2005, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2006

52.
Mary, Mary
P
000000001961-03-08-0000March 8, 1961
000000001964-12-12-0000December 12, 1964
1,572[53]

53.
Evita
M
000000001979-09-25-0000September 25, 1979
000000001983-06-26-0000June 26, 1983
1,567[54]
7 Tony Awards in 1980, including Best Musical
6 Drama Desk Awards in 1980, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1981
Revival in 2012 (337 performances)

54.
The Voice of the Turtle
P
000000001943-12-08-0000December 8, 1943
000000001948-01-03-0000January 3, 1948
1,557[55]

55.
Matilda the Musical
M
000000002013-04-11-0000April 11, 2013
000000002017-01-01-0000January 1, 2017
1,554[56]
4 Tony Awards in 2013
5 Drama Desk Awards in 2013, including Outstanding Musical
A Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 2013 for the four original Matildas

56.
Jekyll & Hyde
M
000000001997-04-28-0000April 28, 1997
000000002001-01-07-0000January 7, 2001
1,543[57]
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1997
Revival in 2013 (30 performances)

57.
Barefoot in the Park
P
000000001963-10-23-0000October 23, 1963
000000001967-06-25-0000June 25, 1967
1,530[58]
A Tony Award in 1964
Revival in 2006 (109 performances)

58.
42nd Street (2001 revival)
M
000000002001-05-02-0000May 2, 2001
000000002005-01-02-0000January 2, 2005
1,524[59]
Revival
2 Tony Awards in 2001, including Best Revival of a Musical
A Drama Desk Award in 2001, Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Original production in 1980 (3486 performances)

59.
Dreamgirls
M
000000001981-12-20-0000December 20, 1981
000000001985-08-11-0000August 11, 1985
1,521[60]
6 Tony Awards in 1982
4 Drama Desk Awards in 1982
Grammy Award for Best Cast Show Album in 1983
Revivals in 1987 (177 performances) and 2001 (1 benefit performance)

60.
Mame
M
000000001966-05-24-0000May 24, 1966
000000001970-01-03-0000January 3, 1970
1,508[61]
3 Tony Awards in 1966
Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album in 1967
Revival in 1983 (41 performances)

61.
Grease (1994 revival)
M
000000001994-05-11-0000May 11, 1994
000000001998-01-25-0000January 25, 1998
1,505[62]
Revival
Original production in 1972 (3,388 performances) and revival in 2007 (554 performances)

62.
Same Time, Next Year
P
000000001975-03-14-0000March 14, 1975
000000001978-09-03-0000September 3, 1978
1,453[63]
A Tony Award in 1975
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1975, including Outstanding Play

63.
Arsenic and Old Lace
P
000000001941-01-10-0000January 10, 1941
000000001944-06-17-0000June 17, 1944
1,444[64]
Revival in 1986 (221 performances)

64.
The Sound of Music
M
000000001959-11-16-0000November 16, 1959
000000001963-06-15-0000June 15, 1963
1,443[65]
5 Tony Awards in 1960, including Best Musical
Grammy Award for Best Show Album (Original Cast) in 1961
Revival in 1998 (533 performances)

65.
Me and My Girl
M
000000001986-08-10-0000August 10, 1986
000000001989-12-31-0000December 31, 1989
1,420[66]
3 Tony Awards in 1987
5 Drama Desk Awards in 1987

66.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
M
000000001961-10-14-0000October 14, 1961
000000001965-03-06-0000March 6, 1965
1,417[67]
7 Tony Awards in 1962, including Best Musical
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1962
Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Show Album in 1962
Revivals in 1995 (548 performances) and 2011 (473 performances)

67.
Hellzapoppin
R
000000001938-09-22-0000September 22, 1938
000000001941-12-17-0000December 17, 1941
1,404[68]

68.
The Music Man
M
000000001957-12-19-0000December 19, 1957
000000001961-04-15-0000April 15, 1961
1,375[69]
6 Tony Awards in 1958, including Best Musical
Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album (Broadway or TV) in 1959
Revivals in 1980 (21 performances) and 2000 (699 performances)

69.
Funny Girl
M
000000001964-03-26-0000March 26, 1964
000000001967-07-01-0000July 1, 1967
1,348[70]
Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album in 1965
Revival in 2002 (1 benefit performance)

70.
Mummenschanz
S
000000001977-03-30-0000March 30, 1977
000000001980-04-20-0000April 20, 1980
1,326[71]
Broadway's longest-running special

71.
Oh! Calcutta!
R
000000001969-06-17-0000June 17, 1969
000000001972-08-12-0000August 12, 1972
1,314[72]
Original production
Revival in 1976 (5,959 performances)

72.
Billy Elliot the Musical
M
000000002008-11-13-0000November 13, 2008
000000002012-01-08-0000January 8, 2012
1,312[73]
10 Tony Awards in 2009, including Best Musical
10 Drama Desk Awards in 2009, including Outstanding Musical

73.
Movin' Out
D
000000002002-10-24-0000October 24, 2002
000000002005-12-11-0000December 11, 2005
1,303[74]
2 Tony Awards in 2003
A Drama Desk Award in 2003

74.
Brighton Beach Memoirs
P
000000001983-03-27-0000March 27, 1983
000000001986-05-11-0000May 11, 1986
1,299[75]
A Tony Award in 1983
Revival in 2009 (9 performances)

75.
Angel Street
P
000000001941-12-05-0000December 5, 1941
000000001944-12-30-0000December 30, 1944
1,295[76]
Revivals in 1948 (14 performances) and 1975 (52 performances)

76.
Lightnin'
P
000000001918-08-26-0000August 26, 1918
000000001921-08-27-0000August 27, 1921
1,291[77]
First ever production with 1000+ performances
Revival in 1938 (54 performances)

77.
Promises, Promises
M
000000001968-12-01-0000December 1, 1968
000000001972-01-01-0000January 1, 1972
1,281[78]
2 Tony Awards in 1969
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1969
Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album in 1970
Revival in 2010 (289 performances)

78.
The King and I
M
000000001951-03-29-0000March 29, 1951
000000001954-03-20-0000March 20, 1954
1,246[79]
5 Tony Awards in 1952, including Best Musical
Revivals in 1977 (695 performances), 1985 (191 performances), 1996 (780 performances), and 2015 (499 performances)

79.
Cactus Flower
P
000000001965-12-08-0000December 8, 1965
000000001968-11-23-0000November 23, 1968
1,234[80]

80.
Sleuth
P
000000001970-11-12-0000November 12, 1970
000000001973-10-13-0000October 13, 1973
1,222[81]
A Tony Award in 1971, Best Play

Torch Song Trilogy
P
000000001982-06-10-0000June 10, 1982
000000001985-05-19-0000May 19, 1985
1,222[82]
2 Tony Awards in 1983, including Best Play
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1983, including Outstanding Play

82.
1776
M
000000001969-03-16-0000March 16, 1969
000000001972-02-13-0000February 13, 1972
1,217[83]
3 Tony Awards in 1969, including Best Musical
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1969
Revival in 1997 (333 performances)

83.
Equus
P
000000001974-10-24-0000October 24, 1974
000000001977-10-02-0000October 2, 1977
1,209[84]
2 Tony Awards in 1975, including Best Play
4 Drama Desk Awards in 1975, including Outstanding Play
Revival in 2008 (156 performances)

84.
Sugar Babies
R
000000001979-10-08-0000October 8, 1979
000000001982-08-28-0000August 28, 1982
1,208[85]

85.
Guys and Dolls
M
000000001950-11-24-0000November 24, 1950
000000001953-11-28-0000November 28, 1953
1,200[86]
5 Tony Awards in 1951, including Best Musical
Revivals in 1955 (16 performances), 1965 (15 performances), 1976 (239 performances), 1992 (1143 performances), and 2009 (121 performances)

86.
In the Heights
M
000000002008-03-30-0000March 30, 2008
000000002011-01-09-0000January 9, 2011
1,184[87]
4 Tony Awards in 2008, including Best Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2009

87.
Amadeus
P
000000001980-12-17-0000December 17, 1980
000000001983-10-16-0000October 16, 1983
1,181[88]
5 Tony Awards in 1981, including Best Play
3 Drama Desk Awards in 1981, including Outstanding Play
Revival in 1999 (173 performances)

88.
Once
M
000000002012-03-18-0000March 18, 2012
000000002015-01-04-0000January 4, 2015
1,168[89]
8 Tony Awards in 2012, including Best Musical
4 Drama Desk Awards in 2012, including Outstanding Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2013

89.
Cabaret
M
000000001966-11-20-0000November 20, 1966
000000001969-09-06-0000September 6, 1969
1,165[90]
8 Tony Awards in 1967, including Best Musical
Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album in 1968
Revivals in 1987 (261 performances), 1998 (2377 performances), and 2014 (388 performances)

Memphis
M
000000002009-10-19-0000October 19, 2009
000000002012-08-05-0000August 5, 2012
1,165[91]
4 Tony Awards in 2010, including Best Musical
4 Drama Desk Awards in 2010, including Outstanding Musical

91.
Mister Roberts
P
000000001948-02-18-0000February 18, 1948
000000001951-01-06-0000January 6, 1951
1,157[92]
5 Tony Awards in 1948, including Best Play

92.
Annie Get Your Gun
M
000000001946-05-16-0000May 16, 1946
000000001949-02-12-0000February 12, 1949
1,147[93]
Revivals in 1966 (78 performances) and 1999 (1,045 performances)
Oldest 1000+ original to be joined by 1000+ revival

93.
Guys and Dolls (1992 revival)
M
000000001992-04-14-0000April 14, 1992
000000001995-01-08-0000January 8, 1995
1,143[94]
Revival
4 Tony Awards in 1992, including Best Revival of a Musical
7 Drama Desk Awards in 1992, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 1993
Original production in 1950 (1,200 performances) and revivals in 1955 (16 performances), 1965 (15 performances), 1976 (239 performances), and 2009 (121 performances)

94.
The Seven Year Itch
P
000000001952-11-20-0000November 20, 1952
000000001955-08-13-0000August 13, 1955
1,141[95]
A Tony Award in 1953

95.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
M
000000002005-05-02-0000May 2, 2005
000000002008-01-20-0000January 20, 2008
1,136[96]
2 Tony Awards in 2005
3 Drama Desk Awards in 2005

96.
Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk
D
000000001996-04-25-0000April 25, 1996
000000001999-01-10-0000January 10, 1999
1,135[97]
4 Tony Awards in 1996
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1996

97.
Butterflies Are Free
P
000000001969-10-21-0000October 21, 1969
000000001972-07-02-0000July 2, 1972
1,128[98]
A Tony Award in 1970

98.
Pins and Needles
R
000000001937-11-27-0000November 27, 1937
000000001940-06-22-0000June 22, 1940
1,108[99]

99.
Plaza Suite
P
000000001968-02-14-0000February 14, 1968
000000001970-10-03-0000October 3, 1970
1,097[100]
A Tony Award in 1968

100.
Fosse
D
000000001999-01-14-0000January 14, 1999
000000002001-08-25-0000August 25, 2001
1,093[101]
3 Tony Awards in 1999, including Best Musical
A Drama Desk Award in 1999

101.
They're Playing Our Song
M
000000001979-02-11-0000February 11, 1979
000000001981-09-06-0000September 6, 1981
1,082[102]

102.
Kiss Me, Kate
M
000000001948-12-30-0000December 30, 1948
000000001951-07-28-0000July 28, 1951
1,077[103]
5 Tony Awards in 1949, including Best Musical
Revivals in 1952 (8 performances) and 1999 (881 performances)
First show to win the Tony Award for Best Musical, among other Tony awards

103.
Hamilton
M
000000002015-08-06-0000August 6, 2015

1,069[104]
Currently running at the Richard Rodgers Theatre
11 Tony Awards in 2016, including Best Musical
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2016
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in 2016

104.
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
M
000000002011-06-14-0000June 14, 2011
000000002014-01-04-0000January 4, 2014
1,066[105]
Most expensive production in Broadway history

105.
Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
R
000000001972-04-19-0000April 19, 1972
000000001974-10-27-0000October 27, 1974
1,065[106]
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1972
Grammy Award for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album in 1973

106.
The Pajama Game
M
000000001954-05-13-0000May 13, 1954
000000001956-11-24-0000November 24, 1956
1,063[107]
3 Tony Awards in 1955, including Best Musical
Revivals in 1973 (65 performances) and 2006 (129 performances)

107.
Shenandoah
M
000000001975-01-07-0000January 7, 1975
000000001977-08-07-0000August 7, 1977
1,050[108]
2 Tony Awards in 1975
2 Drama Desk Awards in 1975
Revival in 1989 (32 performances)

108.
Annie Get Your Gun (1999 revival)
M
000000001999-03-04-0000March 4, 1999
000000002001-09-01-0000September 1, 2001
1,045[109]
Revival
2 Tony Awards in 1999, including Best Revival of a Musical
A Drama Desk Award in 1999
A Special Drama Desk Award in 2001 for Reba McEntire
Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album in 2000
Original production in 1946 (1,147 performances) and revival in 1966 (78 performances)

109.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
P
000000001953-10-15-0000October 15, 1953
000000001956-03-24-0000March 24, 1956
1,027[110]
3 Tony Awards in 1954, including Best Play
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1954

110.
Les Misérables (2014 revival)
M
000000002014-03-23-0000March 23, 2014
000000002016-09-04-0000September 4, 2016
1,024[111]
Revival
Original production in 1987 (6,680 performances) and revival in 2006 (463 performances)

111.
Damn Yankees
M
000000001955-05-05-0000May 5, 1955
000000001957-10-12-0000October 12, 1957
1,019[112]
7 Tony Awards in 1956, including Best Musical
Revival in 1994 (533 performances)

112.
Grand Hotel
M
000000001989-11-12-0000November 12, 1989
000000001992-04-25-0000April 25, 1992
1,017[113]
5 Tony Awards in 1990
5 Drama Desk Awards in 1990

113.
Contact
D
000000002000-03-30-0000March 30, 2000
000000002002-09-01-0000September 1, 2002
1,010[114]
4 Tony Awards in 2000, including Best Musical
4 Drama Desk Awards in 2000, including Outstanding Musical

114.
Never Too Late
P
000000001962-11-27-0000November 27, 1962
000000001965-04-24-0000April 24, 1965
1,007[115]

115.
Beatlemania
M
000000001977-05-31-0000May 31, 1977
000000001979-10-17-0000October 17, 1979
1,006[116]

116.
Big River
M
000000001985-04-25-0000April 25, 1985
000000001987-09-20-0000September 20, 1987
1,005[117]
7 Tony Awards in 1985, including Best Musical
7 Drama Desk Awards in 1985
Revival in 2003 (67 performances)

117.
Newsies
M
000000002012-03-29-0000March 29, 2012
000000002014-08-24-0000August 24, 2014
1,004[118]
2 Tony Awards in 2012
2 Drama Desk Awards in 2012

tag: table


document_title: List of largest hotels

question_text: what is the biggest hotel in las vegas nv

text: List of largest hotels

text: Largest hotels in the world[edit]

text:
Rank
Name
Country
City
Rooms/suites
Floors

1
First World Hotel
 Malaysia
Genting Highlands
7,351
24 floors (Tower 1), 28 floors (Tower 2); Tower 2 Annex has altogether 1,286 rooms. The world's largest hotel from 2006–2008 and (after expansion) from August 2015 – present.

2
The Venetian Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
7,117
The Venetian and The Palazzo (53 floors) complex was the world's largest hotel from 2008–2015.

3
MGM Grand Las Vegas + The Signature
 United States
Las Vegas
6,852
Includes MGM Grand (30 floors), Signature (38 floors in 3 towers), Skylofts (occupies top 2 floors), and the Mansion; was the world's largest hotel from 1993–2006.

4
CityCenter
 United States
Las Vegas
6,790
5 towers: Aria (61 floors), Vdara (57 floors), Mandarin Oriental (56 floors), Veer Towers (37 floors in 2 towers),[1][2]

5
Sands Cotai Central
 Macau
Macau
6,000
4 towers, St. Regis, Holiday Inn/Conrad and Sheraton (2 towers).

6
Izmailovo Hotel
 Russia
Moscow
5,000
4 towers, Alpha, Beta, Vega, Gamma-Delta, 30 stories each; the world's largest hotel from 1980–1993.

7
Wynn Las Vegas + Encore Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
4,750
45/48 floors (2 towers)

8
Mandalay Bay + Delano + Four Seasons
 United States
Las Vegas
4,426
43 (Mandalay Bay tower, 5 of which are occupied by Four Seasons), 47 (Delano tower)

9
Luxor Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
4,407
22/22/30 floors (3 buildings)

10
Ambassador City Jomtien
 Thailand
Pattaya
4,219

11
Sheraton Grand Macao
 Macau
Macau
4,001[3]
Sky tower 41 floors, Earth tower 40 floors

12
Excalibur Hotel and Casino
 United States
Las Vegas
3,981
28 floors (2 towers); was the world's largest hotel from 1990–1993.

13
Caesars Palace
 United States
Las Vegas
3,960
29/26/22/14/14/? floors (6 towers)

14
Bellagio Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
3,950
36 floors (2 towers)

15
Hilton Hawaiian Village
 United States
Honolulu
3,804
8 towers

16
Circus Circus Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
3,773
35/29/15 floors (3 towers)

17
Shinagawa Prince Hotel
 Japan
Tokyo
3,680

18
Flamingo Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
3,626
28 floors

19
Atlantis Paradise Island
 Bahamas
Paradise Island
3,414

20
Moon Palace Golf & Spa
 Mexico
Riviera Maya
3,407

21
Disney's Port Orleans Riverside and French Quarter[4]
 United States
Lake Buena Vista
3,056
Includes multiple buildings

22
The Mirage
 United States
Las Vegas
3,044
30 floors

23
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
3,027
53/51 floors

24
Monte Carlo Resort and Casino
 United States
Las Vegas
3,002
32 floors

25
The Parisian
 Macau
Macau
3,000

26
The Venetian Macao
 Macau
Macau
3,000
40 floors

27
Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino (formerly the LVH and Las Vegas Hilton)
 United States
Las Vegas
2,956
30 floors

28
Paris Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
2,916
33 floors

29
Treasure Island Hotel and Casino
 United States
Las Vegas
2,884
36 floors

30
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center
 United States
Nashville
2,881
6 floors

31
Disney's Pop Century Resort[4]
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
2,880
4 floors

32
Bally's Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
2,814
26 floors

33
Borgata
 United States
Atlantic City
2,802
43 floors

34
Harrah's Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
2,677
35/23/15 floors (3 towers)

35
The Linq
 United States
Las Vegas
2,640
Formerly named the Quad and the Imperial Palace, 19 floors

36
Oasis Beach Hotel
 Turkey
Antalya
2,628[5]

37
Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino
 United States
Las Vegas
2,600
39 floors

38
Harrah's Atlantic City
 United States
Atlantic City
2,588
40 floors (Waterfront Tower)

39
Marina Bay Sands
 Singapore
Singapore
2,561
55 floors (3 towers)

40
Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino
 United States
Las Vegas
2,522
42/20 floors

41
Stratosphere Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
2,427
24 floors (hotel building)

42
Golden Nugget Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
2,419
24/22/18 floors

43
Foxwoods Resort Casino
 United States
Mashantucket
2,266

44
Walt Disney World Dolphin & Walt Disney World Swan
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
2,265[6]

45
Universal's Cabana Bay Beach Resort
 United States
Orlando
2,200
Multiple buildings ( (3) 4 floors, (2) 7 floors, (2) 11 floors)

46
Galaxy Macau
 Macau
Macau
2,200
3 hotel complex. Galaxy Hotel (1,500), Okura Hotel (410) and Banyan Tree Hotel (238)

47
City of Dreams
 Macau
Macau
2,200
3 hotel towers: Hard Rock Hotel, Grand Hyatt Macau and Crown Towers

48
South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa
 United States
Las Vegas
2,163
25 floors

49
Hotel Moon Palace Cancún
 Mexico
Cancun
2,133[citation needed]

50
Tropicana Casino and Resort Atlantic City
 United States
Atlantic City
2,129

51
Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
2,112
2 floors

52
Riviera (hotel and casino)
 United States
Las Vegas
2,100
24/17/9 floors (closed on May 4, 2015)

53
New York-New York Hotel & Casino
 United States
Las Vegas
2,024
49 floors

54
Hyatt Regency Chicago
 United States
Chicago
2,020
36 floors

55
Orlando Marriott World Center
 United States
Orlando
2,009
28 floors

56
Dacheng International
 China
Hebei
2,000[citation needed]

57
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
 United States
Oxon Hill
2,000
18 floors

58
Disney's All-Star Music Resort
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
2,000
3 floors

59
Zhangjiajie Dacheng Shanshui Tanxia International
 China
Hebei
2,000[citation needed]

60
Grand Sierra Resort
 United States
Reno
1,995
27 floors

61
Disney's Art of Animation Resort
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
1,984
Multiple Buildings

62
New York Hilton Midtown
 United States
New York
1,980
49 floors

63
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
1,967

64
New York Marriott Marquis
 United States
New York
1,949
49 floors

65
Disney's All-Star Movies Resort
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
1,920
3 floors

66
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
 United States
San Francisco
1,908
46 floors (tallest of 3 towers)

67
Aquarius Casino Resort
 United States
Laughlin, Nevada
1,907

68
The Orleans Hotel and Casino
 United States
Las Vegas
1,885
21 floors

69
Sheraton Dallas Hotel
 United States
Dallas
1,840
42 floors

70
Cosmos Hotel
 Russia
Moscow
1,777[citation needed]
25 floors

71
Hard Rock Hotel Punta Cana
 Dominican Republic
Punta Cana
1,775[citation needed]

72
Bally's Atlantic City
 United States
Atlantic City
1,753
30 floors

73
Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers
 United States
New York
1,750
50 floors

74
Anjum Hotel Makkah
 Saudi Arabia
Mecca
1,743[7]

75
Beau Rivage (Mississippi)
 United States
Biloxi
1,740
32 floors

76
Silver Legacy Reno
 United States
Reno
1,720

77
SLS Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
1,720

78
Hotel Pennsylvania
 United States
New York
1,700
22 floors

79
Adlerkurort
 Russia
Sochi
1,681[citation needed]

80
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
 United States
Atlanta
1,675
52 floors

81
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
 United States
New Orleans
1,660
29 floors

82
Palmer House
 United States
Chicago
1,641

83
Hyatt Regency Orlando
 United States
Orlando
1,641

84
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel
 United States
Honolulu
1,634

85
Shinjuku Washington Hotel
 Japan
Tokyo
1,633[citation needed]

86
Royal National Hotel
 United Kingdom
London
1,630
8 floors

87
Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel
 United States
San Diego
1,625
Harbor Tower – 40 floors, Seaport Tower – 34 floors

88
Hilton Anatole
 United States
Dallas
1,608
27 floors

89
JW Marriott Marquis Dubai
 United Arab Emirates
Dubai
1,608
72 floors, 2 buildings[8]

90
Crown Casino
 Australia
Melbourne
1,604
43,[9] 23, 28 floors across 3 towers: Crown Towers, Crown Promenade and Crown Metropol

91
John Ascuaga's Nugget Casino Resort
 United States
Sparks, Nevada
1,600
29 floors in 2 towers

92
Chelsea Hotel
 Canada
Toronto
1,590

93
JW Marriott/Ritz Carlton Orlando Grande Lakes
 United States
Orlando
1,584
26/15 (2 towers)

94
Hilton Anaheim
 United States
Anaheim
1,572

95
Circus Circus Reno
 United States
Reno
1,572
23/23/28 floors (3 towers)

96
Hilton Chicago
 United States
Chicago
1,544
29 floors; had 3,000 rooms and was the world's largest hotel when it opened in 1927

97
Atlantis, The Palm
 United Arab Emirates
Dubai
1,539

98
Xianglu Grand
 China
Xiamen, China
1,525[citation needed]

99
Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center
 United States
Grapevine, Texas
1,511
9 floors

100
Fontainebleau Miami Beach
 United States
Miami Beach
1,504

101
Rosen Shingle Creek
United States
Orlando
1,500
14 floors

101
Marriott Marquis
 United States
San Francisco
1,500[citation needed]

102
Swissotel Makkah
 Saudi Arabia
Mecca
1,487[10]
Part of Makkah Clock Tower (Abraj al Bait)

103
Tropicana Las Vegas
 United States
Las Vegas
1,467
21/22 floors (2 towers)

104
Rin Grand Hotel
 Romania
Bucharest
1,459
15 floors

105
Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
 United States
Orlando
1,416 (1406 until mid 2016)
9 floors

106
Makkah Hilton & Towers
 Saudi Arabia
Mecca
1,414[citation needed]
30 floors

107
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
 United States
Philadelphia
1,408[citation needed]
23 floors

108
Peppermill Reno
 United States
Reno
1,407

109
Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino
 United States
Laughlin
1,405

110
Revel Atlantic City
 United States
Atlantic City
1,339

111
Sheraton Centre Hotel
 Canada
Toronto
1,377
42 floors

112
Fairmont Royal York Hotel
 Canada
Toronto
1,365
28 floors

113
Bangkok Marriott Marquis Queen's Park
 Thailand
Bangkok
1,360[citation needed]
38 floors

114
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
 United States
Los Angeles
1,358

115
Rosen Centre Hotel
 United States
Orlando
1,334[citation needed]
24 floors

116
New Orleans Marriott
 United States
New Orleans
1,333 [11]
41 floors

117
Showboat Atlantic City
 United States
Atlantic City
1,331

118
ROW NYC
 United States
New York
1,331[citation needed]

119
Marriott Marquis & Marina
 United States
San Diego
1,360Template:Citation verified
24 floors, two towers

120
Marriott Wardman Park
 United States
Washington, DC
1,316

121
Hotel Pullman Zamzam Makkah
 Saudi Arabia
Mecca
1,315[12]
Part of Makkah Clock Tower (Abraj al Bait)

122
Grand Hyatt
 United States
New York
1,311
34 floors

123
Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge and Villas
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
1,307
4 floors

124
Makkah Clock Royal Tower (Fairmont)
 Saudi Arabia
Mecca
1,299[13]
Part of Makkah Clock Tower (Abraj al Bait)

125
Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center
 United States
Detroit
1,298
73 floors[14][15][16]

126
Galt House Hotel
 United States
Louisville
1,290[citation needed]

127
Hilton LAX Airport
 United States
Los Angeles
1,279[citation needed]

128
Swissôtel The Stamford
 Singapore
Singapore
1,261

129
Hyatt Regency Atlanta
 United States
Atlanta
1,260

130
Best Western Premier Havana Nha Trang
 Vietnam
Nha Trang
1,260[citation needed]
41 floors

131
The Bazaar Hotel, Suan Lum Night Bazaar
 Thailand
Bangkok
1,300[citation needed]

132
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
 United States
Chicago
1,258[citation needed]
2 towers (33 and 16 floors)

133
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
 United States
New York
1,245
42 floors

134
Buffalo Bill's
 United States
Primm, Nevada
1,242[citation needed]

135
Hilton Waikoloa Beach Resort
 United States
Waikoloa Village, Hawaii
1,240
3 towers[17]

136
Sunway Resort
 Malaysia
Petaling Jaya
1,234[citation needed]

137
Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel
 United States
Denver
1,231
22[18]

138
Holiday Inn Macao Cotai Central
 Macau
Macau
1,224
Part of Sands Cotai Central Complex

139
Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort & Spa
 United States
Honolulu
1,221[citation needed]
2 towers

140
Sheraton
 United States
Boston
1,220[citation needed]

141
Disney's Yacht Club and Beach Club Resorts
 United States
Bay Lake, Florida
1,213
5 floors (2 buildings)

142
Sheraton
 United States
Chicago
1,209[citation needed]

143
Madinah Anwar Al Madinah (Mövenpick)
 Saudi Arabia
Medina
1,207
14 floors[19]

143
Marriott Marquis Chicago
 United States
Chicago
1,205
40 floors[20]

144
Makkah Hajar Tower (Mövenpick)
 Saudi Arabia
Mecca
1,200[21]
Part of Makkah Clock Tower (Abraj al Bait)

144
Park Inn Pribaltiskaya Hotel
 Russia
St. Petersburg
1,200[citation needed]

145
Hilton Americas
 United States
Houston
1,200[citation needed]

146
Gothia Towers
 Sweden
Gothenburg
1,200[22]
23 (tower 1), 25 (tower 2), 29 (tower 3)

147
Chicago Marriott Downtown
 United States
Chicago
1,198[citation needed]

148
Westin St. Francis
 United States
San Francisco
1,195
32/12 floors (2 towers)

149
Hyatt Regency New Orleans
 United States
New Orleans
1,193[23]
27 floors

150
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
 United States
San Diego
1,190
30 floors

151
Mohegan Sun Hotel & Casino
 United States
Uncasville, Connecticut
1,175
36 floors

152
Regal Airport Hotel
 Hong Kong
Hong Kong
1,171[citation needed]

153
Colorado Belle
 United States
Laughlin
1,168[citation needed]

154
Caesars Atlantic City
 United States
Atlantic City
1,158[citation needed]

155
Sheraton Princess Kai'ulani
 United States
Honolulu
1,152[citation needed]
2 towers

156
Yalta Hotel Complex
 Crimea
Yalta
1,140[citation needed]

157
Lopesan Costa Meloneras Resort
 Spain
San Bartolomé de Tirajana
1,136[citation needed]

158
Gold Strike Casino Resort
 United States
Tunica Resorts
1,133[24]

158
Estrel Hotel
 Germany
Berlin
1,125

159
Lotte Hotel Seoul
 South Korea
Seoul
1,120
38 floors

160
Hyatt Regency Dallas
 United States
Dallas
1,120
30 floors

161
Sheraton New Orleans
 United States
New Orleans
1,110 [25]
48 floors

162
Sultan Hotel
 Indonesia
Jakarta
1,104[citation needed]

163
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
 United States
Denver
1,100
37 floors[26]

164
Disney's Newport Bay Club
 France
Marne-la-Vallée
1,098[citation needed]

165
Hyatt Regency O'Hare
 United States
Rosemont, Illinois
1,095 [27]

166
Cairo Marriott Hotel
 Egypt
Cairo
1,089
20 floors (two towers)

167
Azimut Hotel St. Petersburg
 Russia
St. Petersburg
1,080[citation needed]

168
Renaissance Grand
 United States
St. Louis
1,078[citation needed]
23 floors (two towers)

169
Washington Hilton
 United States
Washington, DC
1,070

170
Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center
 United States
Atlanta
1,070[citation needed]

171
Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
 United States
Atlanta
1,068

172
Harrah's Resort Southern California
 United States
Valley Center
1,065

173
Hilton London Metropole
 United Kingdom
London
1,059
West Wing (14 floors) / Tower Wing (23 floors) / East Wing (10 floors)

174
Edgewater Hotel and Casino
 United States
Laughlin
1,053 [28]

175
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
 United States
San Diego
1,053[citation needed]

176
Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk
 Japan
Fukuoka
1,052[citation needed]

177
Meritus Mandarin Singapore
 Singapore
Singapore
1,051
39 floors (two towers)

178
Golden Nugget Lake Charles
 United States
Lake Charles
1,040

179
Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel
 Canada
Montreal
950
21 floors

180
Boca Raton Resort and Club
 United States
Boca Raton
1,038

181
Plaza Hotel & Casino
 United States
Las Vegas
1,037
22/22 floors

182
Anaheim Marriott
 United States
Anaheim
1,031[citation needed]

183
Palace Station
 United States
Las Vegas
1,028
21 floors

184
Le Meridien Etoile
 France
Paris
1,025[citation needed]

185
Parc 55 – a Hilton Hotel
 United States
San Francisco
1,024[citation needed]
32 floors

186
Grand Hyatt Incheon
 South Korea
Incheon
1,022[citation needed]

187
Park Plaza Westminster Bridge
 United Kingdom
London
1,021

188
Roosevelt Hotel
 United States
New York
1,015
19 floors

189
New Yorker
 United States
New York
1,014

190
JW Marriott
 United States
Austin
1,012
34 floors [29]

191
Park Inn Alexanderplatz
 Germany
Berlin
1,012[citation needed]
41 floors

192
Disney's Sequoia Lodge
 France
Marne-la-Vallée
1,011[citation needed]

193
Los Angeles Airport Marriott
 United States
Los Angeles
1,011[citation needed]

194
Gloria Hotel
 United Arab Emirates
Dubai
1,010
[30]

195
Sheraton Frankfurt Hotel & Towers
 Germany
Frankfurt am Main
1,008[citation needed]
8 floors

196
Mulia Hotel
 Indonesia
Jakarta
1,008[citation needed]
40 floors

197
Hilton Niagara Falls/Fallsview
 Canada
Niagara Falls, Ontario
1,006[citation needed]

198
JW Marriott Indianapolis
 United States
Indianapolis
1,005
34 floors

199
Grand Hyatt San Antonio
 United States
San Antonio
1,003
24 floors

200
Shin Yokohama Prince
 Japan
Yokohama
1,002[citation needed]

201
JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa
 United States
San Antonio
1,002[31]

202
APA Hotel and Resort
 Japan
Tokyo Bay
1,001[citation needed]

203
Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort
 United States
Orlando
1,001[citation needed]

204
JW Marriott & Ritz Carlton
 United States
Los Angeles
1,001[32]

205
Omni Dallas Hotel
 United States
Dallas
1,001[33]

206
Atlantis Casino Resort
 United States
Reno
1,000
27 floors

207
Disney's Hotel Cheyenne
 France
Marne-la-Vallée
1,000[citation needed]

208
Disney's Hotel Santa Fe
 France
Marne-la-Vallée
1,000[citation needed]

209
Ramada Hotel and Suites Boao
 China
Hainan
1,000[citation needed]

210
River Palms
 United States
Laughlin
1,000

211
Sheraton Phoenix Downtown
 United States
Phoenix, Arizona
1,000

212
Yanggakdo International Hotel
 North Korea
Pyongyang
1,000

213
Marriott Marquis Houston
 United States
Houston
1,000

text: Hotels that had over 1,000 rooms in the past[edit]

text:
Rank
Name
City
Rooms/suites
Floors
Contents

1
Rossiya Hotel
 Moscow
3,200
21
Demolished in 2006. It was the largest hotel in the world from 1967 until 1980.

2
Riviera
 Las Vegas
2,100

Demolished in 2016.

3
Sahara Hotel and Casino
 Las Vegas
1,720
27/24/14 (3 buildings)
Closed in 2011 for renovations to become SLS Las Vegas.

4
Stardust Resort and Casino
 Las Vegas
1,552
32/9 floors (2 towers)
Closed in 2006 and imploded in 2007, was to become Echelon Place, but in 2008, the construction was suspended and is currently on hold.

5
Dunes Las Vegas
 Las Vegas
1,300
24/17 floors (2 towers)
Closed and imploded in 1993. Replaced by Bellagio.

6
Hacienda Resort Las Vegas
 Las Vegas
1,200
12 floors
Closed and imploded in 1996. Now the Mandalay Bay.

7
Mount Royal Hotel
 Montreal
1,100
12 floors
Built in 1922 and converted to Les Cours Mont Royal in 1988.

8
Laurentian Hotel
 Montreal
1,000
20 floors
Built in 1948 and demolished in 1978.

text: Largest hotels under construction[edit]

text:
Rank
Name
City
Rooms/suites
Floors
Contents

1
Abraj Kudai
 Mecca
10,000
30–45 floors
TBC in 2017

2
Resorts World
 Las Vegas
6,583
30/25/15/15
TBC in 2018

3
Baha Mar
 Nassau
2,901
26 floors
TBC in 2017

4
Gaylord Rockies
 Aurora,CO
1,501

TBC in 2018