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The number of copies of Pong (or commercial clones of Pong) exceeds 100,000 units. Approximately 10,000 of these units were manufactured by Atari, the original developer of the title.
H.R. "Pete" Kaufman leaves Ramtek to found Exidy, Inc..
On 25 March, the United States division of Service Games changes its name to Sega.
Prior to their acquisition by Atari, Kee Games releases Tank
to video arcades.
The earliest first-person shooter video games are released:
*Steve Colley, Howard Palmer, and Greg Johnson develop Maze War on the Imlac PDS-1 at the NASA Ames Research Center in California.
*Jim Bowery develops Spasim
for PLATO. Two versions are release, the first in March and the second in July.
Rusty Rutherford develops pedit5, the first dungeon crawl game, for PLATO.
Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood develop dnd, the first computer role-playing game and the first game to feature a "boss" (the Golden Dragon), for PLATO.

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