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Events

December 27 - Starcade, a video game television game show, debuts on TBS in the United States.

Notable releases

October 13 - Mystique releases the Custer's Revenge
adult video game for the Atari 2600 home console.
Bally/Midway releases the Tron arcade game before the movie
Gottlieb releases the Q-Bert arcade game.
Atari releases E.T., possibly the biggest flop in video game history and one of two major video game releases (along with the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man
) that helped spark the video game crash of 1983.
Mattel releases Utopia
for Intellivision; Utopia was the first sim game.
Namco releases Dig Dug
, Pole Position
, Super Pac-Man
, Pac-Man Plus
and Xevious
.
SEGA releases the Zaxxon
arcade game.
Warner Communications' Atari releases the Quantum arcade game.
Williams Electronics releases the Joust
and Robotron: 2084
arcade games.
Parker Brothers releases Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Atari 2600 and Intellivision), the first Star Wars video game.

Hardware

Atari releases the Atari 5200 home console.
Astrocade Inc. (formerly Astrovision) releases the Astrocade console.
Coleco Industries releases the Gemini home console, an Atari 2600 clone.
Commodore Business Machines releases the Commodore 64 home computer.
Emerson releases the Arcadia 2001 home console.
Entrex releases the Adventure Vision home console.
General Consumer Electronics releases the Vectrex home console.
Sinclair Research releases the ZX Spectrum home computer, which would become the most popular gaming computer of its generation in the UK.
Coleco releases the Colecovision home console.

Business

New companies: Electronic Arts Inc., Lucasfilm Games, MicroProse Software, Inc., Enix Corporation.
Ultimate Play The Game (later to be known as Rareware) is founded.

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