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Video games - 1976 in video gaming


Events

  • In October, Warner Communications acquires Atari from Nolan Bushnell for $28 million USD. Bushnell stays on as chairman.

Notable releases

  • In April, Atari releases Breakout
    , designed by Apple Computer cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, to video arcades.
  • In November, Kee Games (a wholly owned subsidiary of Atari) releases Sprint 2
    , the first mass-produced microprocessor-based arcade game.
  • Coleco releases the Telstar, a console clone of Pong based on General Instrument's AY-3-8500 microchip.
  • Radofin releases the 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System video game console in Europe.
  • 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.

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