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Computer Space, the first mass produced arcade game, was released this year.

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Events

• On 22 March, Ralph Baer files with the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding a patent for "television gaming and training apparatus."^[1]
• In June, Bill Pitts and Hugh Tuck form Computer Recreations, Inc.^[2]
• Magnavox signs a license agreement with Sanders Associates regarding the Odyssey video game console.^[3]
• Nakamura Manufacturing Ltd. adopts "Namco" as a brand name.^[4]

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Notable releases

• In September, Computer Recreations, Inc. installs Galaxy Game, a reprogrammed version of Spacewar! for PDP-11 hardware and the first coin-operated video arcade game, in Tresidder Union at Stanford University.^[2]
• In November, Nutting Associates releases 1,500 cabinets of Nolan Bushnell's Computer Space — another free-standing implementation of Spacewar!, and the first mass produced arcade game (or video game of any kind).^[3]
• Don Rawitsch and two other students of Carleton College develop The Oregon Trail for teletype machines.^[5]
• Don Daglow programs the first computer baseball game on a PDP-10 mainframe computer at Pomona College.^[6]
• Mike Mayfield develops Star Trek on a Sigma 7 minicomputer.^[7]

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