Notable events of 1975 in video gaming. See also history of computer and video games. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... see also: 1974 in games, 1976 in games Games Released or Invented in 1975 Midway See also 1975 in video gaming Categories: 1975 | Game stubs ... See also: 1973 in video gaming, other events of 1974, 1975 in video gaming, history of video games Events Atari releases the Gran Trak arcade racing game featuring a steering wheel Kee Games releases the Tank arcade game The first first-person shooters are released. ... See also: 1975 in video gaming, other events of 1976, 1977 in video gaming, history of video games Events Exidy releases the controversial Death Race arcade game. ... Although the history of computer and video games spans almost five decades, computer and video games themselves did not become part of the popular culture until the late 1970s. ...

Events

• In Fall, Magnavox discontinues the original Odyssey video game console.^[1]

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Notable releases

• Atari and Tele-Games (a division of Sears, Roebuck and Company) release the first official home version of Pong through Sears department stores.^[2]
• Magnavox releases two new models of their Odyssey console: the Odyssey 100 and the Odyssey 200.^[1]
• 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.^[3]
• Midway releases Gun Fight, the first microprocessor-based video game and the first video arcade game licensed from Japan for release in the United States. Originally developed for TTL-based hardware in Japan by Taito, the game was ported to the Intel 8080 microprocessor by Nutting Associates.^[4]
• Don Daglow develops Dungeon, an early computer role-playing game, for the PDP-10.^[5]
• Will Crowther develops Adventure (also known as Colossal Cave and ADVENT), the first interactive fiction game, for the PDP-10.^[6]

For the concept Atari (当たり) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... Sears Holdings Corporation NASDAQ: SHLD is the third largest retailer in the United States, behind Wal-Mart and The Home Depot. ... Pong is also a slang term for odour. ... Interior of a typical Macys department store. ... Nolan Bushnell (born in Clearfield, Utah on February 5, 1943–) is the founder of Atari, Inc. ... Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg, KBE (born December 18, 1946) is a four time Academy Award winning American film director (three OSCARS and 1 Lifetime Achievement Award), and among the most successful filmmakers in history. ... This article is about the 1975 motion picture. ... Midway Games (NYSE: MWY) is a video game publisher known for such game series as Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam, and Spy Hunter. ... Gun Fight was an arcade game released by Midway in 1975. ... Microprocessors, including an Intel 80486DX2 and an Intel 80386 A microprocessor (sometimes abbreviated µP) is a digital electronic component with miniaturized transistors on a single semiconductor integrated circuit (IC). ... A video arcade (known as an amusement arcade in the United Kingdom) is a place where people play arcade video games. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... A Motorola 68000-based computer with various TTL chips. ... Taito may mean: Taito Corporation, a Japanese developer of video game software and arcade hardware. ... In computer science, porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written. ... Intel C8080A processor. ... Microprocessors, including an Intel 80486DX2 and an Intel 80386 A microprocessor (sometimes abbreviated µP) is a digital electronic component with miniaturized transistors on a single semiconductor integrated circuit (IC). ... Nutting Associates was the company that created Computer Space (1971), the first coin operated arcade game. ... Don Daglow (born ~1953) is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer. ... Dungeon was perhaps the first computer role-playing game, and ran on Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10 mainframe computers. ... Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally uses gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. ... The PDP-10 was a computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from the late 1960s on; the name stands for Programmed Data Processor model 10. It was the machine that made time-sharing common; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many... William (Willie or Will) Crowther is a computer programmer and caver. ... Adventure (also known as ADVENT or Colossal Cave) (Crowther & Woods, 1975-1976) was the first computer interactive fiction game (also see adventure game). ... Zork, an early work of interactive fiction, running on a modern interpreter Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software containing simulated environments in which players use text commands to control characters. ... The PDP-10 was a computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from the late 1960s on; the name stands for Programmed Data Processor model 10. It was the machine that made time-sharing common; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many...

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