Notable events of 1982 in computer and video games. See also history of computer and video games. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... see also: 1981 in games, 1983 in games Games Released or Invented in 1982 Champions Storm Over Arnhem Game awards given in 1982 Spiel des Jahres: Enchanted Forest (German title is Sagaland) - Alex Randolph and Michel Matschoss, Ravensburger See also 1982 in video gaming Categories: | ... 1981 1981 in games 1980 in video gaming 1982 in video gaming Notable events of 1981 in computer and video games. ... See also: 1982 in video gaming, other events of 1983, 1984 in video gaming, history of video games Events Video game crash of 1983: Console and home video game sales plummet Notable releases Acornsoft releases the Elite video game Bally/Midway releases the Spy Hunter arcade game Electronic Arts releases... 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

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

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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 the Pole Position racing arcade game; releases the Dig Dug arcade game (licenses it to Atari).
• SEGA releases the Zaxxon arcade game.
• Warner Communications' Atari releases the Quantum arcade game.
• Williams Electronics releases the Joust arcade game; releases the Robotron: 2084 arcade game.
• Parker Brothers releases Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Atari 2600 and Intellivision), the first Star Wars video game.

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Hardware

• Atari releases the Atari 5200 home console.
• Acorn Computers Ltd releases the BBC Micro home computer, which brought the game Elite to prominence.
• 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.

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Business

• New companies: Electronic Arts Inc., Lucasfilm Games, MicroProse Software, Inc., Enix Corporation.