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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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