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Events

In Fall, Magnavox discontinues the original Odyssey video game console.

Notable releases

Atari and Tele-Games (a division of Sears, Roebuck and Company) release the first official home version of Pong through Sears department stores.
Magnavox releases two new models of their Odyssey console: the Odyssey 100 and the Odyssey 200.
Midway releases Gun Fight
, the first microprocessor-based video game and the first video arcade game
licensed from Japan for release in the United States. Taito 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.
Don Daglow develops Dungeon
, an early computer role-playing game, for the PDP-10.
William Crowther develops Adventure
(also known as Colossal Cave and ADVENT), the first interactive fiction game, for the PDP-10.

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