September 12 – Epoch releases Japan's first home video game console, the TV Tennis Electrotennis dedicated home video game console. Its most unusual feature is that the console (including the controller) is wireless, functioning through a UHF antenna.[3]
Magnavox releases two new models of their Odyssey console: the Odyssey 100 and the Odyssey 200.[1]
Philips released the Philips Tele-Game ES 2201 dedicated home video game console, the first system of the Philips Tele-Game series.
Games
February – Midway releases Taito's 1974 arcade racing video game Speed Race, the first video game in the Speed Race series designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, in North America as Wheels[5] and Racer.[6]
February – Horror Games, founded by Nolan Bushnell, publishes its only game, Shark Jaws, intended to cash-in on the popularity of Steven Spielberg's film Jaws.[7]
Taito releases Western Gun, the first video game to depict human-to-human combat.[8][9] Designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, the game had two distinct joystick controls per player, with one eight-way joystick for moving the computerized cowboy around on the screen and the other for changing the shooting direction.[10][11]
November – Midway releases Gun Fight, an adaptation of Taito's Western Gun and the first microprocessor-based video game.[12] Taito's Western Gun used TTL-based hardware, which Dave Nutting Associates ported to the Intel 8080microprocessor for its North American release.[13]
Don Daglow develops Dungeon, an early role-playing video game, for the PDP-10.[14]
dnd, the first video game to include a boss, and arguably the first computer role-playing game, wrapped up initial development. Some sources list the game as 1974; it is unclear exactly when it became playable.
Nürburgring 1, the first first-person racing game, was developed in Germany by Dr. Reiner Foerst.[17][18]
^Bill Loguidice & Matt Barton (2009), Vintage games: an insider look at the history of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the most influential games of all time, p. 197, Focal Press, ISBN 0-240-81146-1
^Thomas, Donald A. Jr. (2005). "–1975–". Archived from the original on March 12, 2006. Retrieved February 17, 2006.
^Cassidy, William (May 6, 2002). "Gun Fight". GameSpy. Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
^Shirley R. Steinberg (2010), Shirley R. Steinberg; Michael Kehler; Lindsay Cornish (eds.), Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, 1, ABC-CLIO, p. 451, ISBN 0-313-35080-9, retrieved April 2, 2011
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