1975 in video games
Appearance
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Events
- In Fall, Magnavox discontinues the original Odyssey video game console.[1]
Business
- New companies: Cinematronics, Enix
Notable releases
Video game consoles
- September, Epoch releases Japan's first home video game console, the TV Tennis Electrotennis. Its most unusual feature is that the console (including the controller) is wireless, functioning through a UHF antenna.[2]
- December, Atari and Tele-Games (a division of Sears, Roebuck and Company) release the first official home version of Pong through Sears department stores.[3]
- Magnavox releases two new models of their Odyssey console: the Odyssey 100 and the Odyssey 200.[1]
Games
- February, Midway releases Taito's 1974 arcade racing video game Speed Race, designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, in North America as Wheels[4] and Racer.[5]
- 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.[6]
- Taito releases Western Gun, the first video game to depict human-to-human combat.[7][8] Designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, the game had two distinct joystick controls per player, with one eight-way joystick for moving the computerized cowboy around on the screen and the other for changing the shooting direction.[9][10]
- November, Midway releases Gun Fight, an adaptation of Taito's Western Gun and the first microprocessor-based video game.[11] Taito's Western Gun used TTL-based hardware, which Dave Nutting Associates ported to the Intel 8080 microprocessor for its North American release.[12]
- Don Daglow develops Dungeon, an early role-playing video game, for the PDP-10.[13]
- William Crowther develops Adventure (also known as Colossal Cave and ADVENT), the first interactive fiction game, for the PDP-10.[14]
- Rusty Rutherford develops pedit5, the first dungeon crawl game, for the PLATO system.[15]
- 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.
References
- ^ a b Winter, David (2006). "Magnavox Odyssey: The first home video game console". pong-story.com. Archived from the original on February 21, 2006. Retrieved February 17, 2006.
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- ^ KCTS-TV. "History of Gaming / Interactive Timeline of Game History". Archived from the original on February 18, 2006. Retrieved February 17, 2006.
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- ^ Bill Loguidice & Matt Barton (2009), Vintage games: an insider look at the history of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the most influential games of all time, p. 197, Focal Press, ISBN 0-240-81146-1
- ^ Thomas, Donald A. Jr. (2005). "–1975–". Archived from the original on March 12, 2006. Retrieved February 17, 2006.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Cassidy, William (May 6, 2002). "Gun Fight". GameSpy. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ Shirley R. Steinberg (2010), Shirley R. Steinberg; Michael Kehler; Lindsay Cornish (eds.), Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, vol. 1, ABC-CLIO, p. 451, ISBN 0-313-35080-9, retrieved April 2, 2011
- ^ Stephen Totilo (August 31, 2010). "In Search Of The First Video Game Gun". Kotaku. Retrieved March 27, 2011.
- ^ Western Gun at the Killer List of Videogames
- ^ Bousiges, Alexis (2005). "Gun Fight". Retrieved February 17, 2006.
- ^ "Western Gun". Emulation Status. Retrieved February 19, 2006.
- ^ Maragos, Nich (2004). "Talking: Don Daglow". Retrieved February 17, 2006.
- ^ Adams, Rick. "A history of 'Adventure'". Retrieved February 17, 2006.
- ^ Rusty Rutherford. "The Creation of PEDIT5". Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
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