Notable events of 1974 in video gaming. See also history of computer and video games. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... see also: 1973 in games, 1975 in games Games Released or Invented in 1974 Dungeons & Dragons Europa Rise and Decline of the Third Reich, won the Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Professional Game of 1974. ... See also: 1972 in video gaming, other events of 1973, 1974 in video gaming, history of video games Events Atari releases the GotCha arcade game Midway Home Entertainment Inc. ... 1975 1975 in games 1974 in video gaming 1976 in video gaming Notable events of 1975 in video gaming. ... Home video-game systems became popular during the 1970s and 80s. ...

Events

Maze War, one of the earliest first-person shooters, was ported to a number of computer systems. The above image was created from a version of the game written for the Xerox Star 8010 in 1985.

• The number of copies of Pong (or commercial clones of Pong) exceeds 100,000 units. Approximately 10,000 of these units were manufactured by Atari, the original developer of the title.^[1]
• H.R. "Pete" Kaufman leaves Ramtek to found Exidy, Inc..^[1]
• Namco acquires the Japanese division of Atari, Inc. and formally enters the video arcade game market.^[1]
• Atari acquires Kee Games as a "marketing ploy." Atari will continue to use the "Kee Games" title as a brand name until 1978.^[1]
• Royal Philips Electronics N.V. acquires Magnavox, which becomes "Philips Consumer Electronics."^[2]
• On 25 March, the United States division of Service Games changes its name to Sega.^[1]

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Notable releases

• Play Meter, the first magazine devoted to coin-operated amusements (including arcade games), publishes its first issue.^[1]
• Magnavox reissues the Odyssey and releases it in Australia, Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, the Soviet Union, and Venezuela.^[3]
• Prior to their acquisition by Atari, Kee Games releases Tank to video arcades.^[1]
• Atari releases Gran Trak 10, the first racing game, to video arcades.^[4]
• The earliest first-person shooter video games are released:
  • Steve Colley, Howard Palmer, and Greg Johnson develop Maze War on the Imlac PDS-1 at the NASA Ames Research Center in California.^[5]
  • Jim Bowery develops Spasim for PLATO. Two versions are release, the first in March and the second in July.^[6]
• Rusty Rutherford develops pedit5, the first dungeon crawl game, for PLATO.^[7]
• Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood develop dnd, the first computer role-playing game for PLATO.^[8]

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