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Overview of the events of 1976 in video gaming
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January – Sega releases Heavyweight Champ ,[3] the first video game to feature hand-to-hand fighting .[4] [5] [6] It uses controls that simulate throwing actual punches.[4]
February – Sega releases Road Race ,[7] a racing video game that introduces pseudo-3D , forward-scrolling, third-person graphics.[8]
April – Taito releases Speed Race Twin ,[9] a sequel to Speed Race that allows simultaneous two-player competitive dual-screen gameplay and uses colour graphics.[10]
April – Atari releases Breakout , whose prototype was designed by Apple Computer cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak , to video arcades .[1]
August – Sega releases Man T.T. ,[11] also known as Moto-Cross , an early motorbike racing game, using a pseudo-3D, forward-scrolling, third-person perspective,[12] similar to Road Race .[8] It also introduces haptic feedback , causing the handlebars to vibrate during collisions .[13] Sega-Gremlin re-brands it as Fonz .[14]
October – Atari releases Night Driver ,[15] a first-person perspective racing video game.
October – Gremlin releases Blockade , the first of what become known as snake games .
Exidy releases Death Race , a racing game based on the film Death Race 2000 , to video arcades. The game sparks a public outcry over violence in video games , and is banned in many areas.[16]
While working at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab , Don Woods discovers and expands Will Crowther 's Adventure . Later in the year, James Gillogly ports Woods's version of the interactive fiction title from Fortran to the C programming language for Unix -based computers.[17]
Hardware
References
^ a b Thomas, Donald A. Jr (2005). "–1976–" . ICWhen.com . Archived from the original (shtml) on March 17, 2006. Retrieved February 18, 2006 .
^ TV Games Probed , Reading Eagle (December 21, 1976)
^ http://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/567840-heavyweight-champ/data
^ a b Spencer, Spanner, The Tao of Beat-'em-ups , EuroGamer, February 6, 2008, Accessed February 23, 2009
^ Ashcraft, Brian, (2008) Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers , (Kodansha International), p. 94
^ Nadia Oxford, 20 Years of Street Fighter [permanent dead link ] , 1UP.com , November 12, 2007
^ http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=road-race&page=detail&id=14493
^ a b Road Race at the Killer List of Videogames
^ http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=speed-race-twin&page=detail&id=19477
^ Speed Race Twin at the Killer List of Videogames
^ http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=man-t.t.&page=detail&id=26084
^ Moto-Cross at the Killer List of Videogames
^ Mark J. P. Wolf (2008), The video game explosion: a history from PONG to PlayStation and beyond , p. 39, ABC-CLIO , ISBN 0-313-33868-X
^ Fonz at the Killer List of Videogames
^ http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=night-driver-upright-model&page=detail&id=26054
^ Gonzalez, Lauren. "When Two Tribes Go to War: A History of Video Game Controversy / The Major Offenders" . GameSpot . Archived from the original on July 17, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2006 .
^ Adams, Rick. "A history of 'Adventure' " . The Colossal Cave Adventure page . Retrieved February 17, 2006 .
^ "Fairchild Video Entertainment System/Channel F" . ClassicGaming.com . Archived from the original on June 10, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2006 .
^ Winter, David (2006). "Coleco Telstar" . PONG-Story . Archived from the original on March 2, 2006. Retrieved February 18, 2006 .
^ Hansen, Dale (2002). "1292 Advanced Programmable Video System FAQ version APVS.01" . Archived from the original (text) on May 13, 2010. Retrieved February 18, 2006 .
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