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Events

Notable releases

  • Richard Garriott creates Akalabeth
    , a computer role-playing game for the Apple IIe. It launches Garriott's career and is a precursor to his highly successful Ultima series.
  • Mattel releases the Intellivision video game console.
  • Namco releases Navalone
    , Kaitei Takara Sagashi
    , SOS
    , Pac-Man
    , which is their biggest selling game of all time, King and Balloon
    , which is the first game to feature synthesized voices, Tank Battalion
    and Rally-X
    , which is the first game to feature a bonus round.
  • Rogue
    is written by Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman and Ken Arnold, spawning the category of roguelike games.
  • Nintendo releases the Radar Scope
    arcade game and the Game & Watch handheld LCD game by Gunpei Yokoi.
  • Sinclair Research releases the ZX80 home computer, the first 'domestic' computer to play games in the UK.
  • Stern Electronics (a subsidiary of Universal Research Laboratories) releases the Berzerk
    arcade game.
  • Warner Communications' Atari releases the Missile Command
    arcade game, and the Battlezone
    arcade game (it was later enhanced for the US Army for military training) – the first video game to employ 3-D graphics, albeit relying on specialized vector graphics hardware.
  • Williams Electronics releases the Defender arcade game.
  • Warner Communications' Atari releases the Centipede
    (by Ed Logg & Dona Bailey) and Warlords arcade games and also the Tempest
    color vector arcade game.

Business

  • New companies: Mindscape, Inc., Sierra On-Line.
  • Mattel creates the original five-programmer Intellivision game design team, nicknamed the Blue Sky Rangers by a magazine writer when the company keeps their names secret in a TV Guide interview.

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