1975 in video gaming
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[edit] Events
- In Fall, Magnavox discontinues the original Odyssey video game console.[1]
[edit] Notable releases
[edit] Video game consoles
- Atari and Tele-Games (a division of Sears, Roebuck and Company) release the first official home version of Pong through Sears department stores.[2]
- Magnavox releases two new models of their Odyssey console: the Odyssey 100 and the Odyssey 200.[1]
[edit] Games
- February, Horror Games, founded by Nolan Bushnell, publishes its only game, Shark Jaws, intended to cash-in on the popularity of Steven Spielberg's film Jaws.[3]
- Midway releases Gun Fight, the first microprocessor-based video game.[4] Taito had developed the original Japanese version of the game, Western Gun, using TTL-based hardware: Dave Nutting Associates ported the game to the Intel 8080 microprocessor for its American release.[5]
- Don Daglow develops Dungeon, an early role-playing video game, for the PDP-10.[6]
- William Crowther develops Adventure (also known as Colossal Cave and ADVENT), the first interactive fiction game, for the PDP-10.[7]
- dnd, the first video game to include a boss, and arguably the first computer role-playing game, wrapped up initial development. Some sources list the game as 1974; it is unclear exactly when it became playable.
- Rusty Rutherford develops pedit5, the first dungeon crawl game, for the PLATO system.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Winter, David (2006). "Magnavox Odyssey: The first home video game console". pong-story.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2006. http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm. Retrieved 17 February 2006.
- ^ KCTS-TV. "History of Gaming / Interactive Timeline of Game History". Archived from the original on 18 February 2006. http://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/history/timeline_flash.html. Retrieved 17 February 2006.
- ^ Thomas, Donald A. Jr. (2005). "–1975–". Archived from the original on 12 March 2006. http://www.icwhen.com/book/the_1970s/1975.shtml. Retrieved 17 February 2006.
- ^ Bousiges, Alexis (2005). "Gun Fight". http://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=detail&id=1040. Retrieved 17 February 2006.
- ^ "Western Gun". Emulation Status. http://emustatus.rainemu.com/games/westerngun.htm. Retrieved 19 February 2006.
- ^ Maragos, Nich (2004). "Talking: Don Daglow". http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3133666&did=1. Retrieved 17 February 2006.
- ^ Adams, Rick. "A history of 'Adventure'". http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html. Retrieved 17 February 2006.
- ^ Rusty Rutherford. "The Creation of PEDIT5". Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. http://armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1948. Retrieved 10 June 2011.
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