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Events

Atari expected E.T. the game to be as popular as the movie, but it ended up selling poorly.

• Video game crash of 1983: Console and home video game sales plummet.

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Notable releases

• Bally/Midway releases the popular Spy Hunter arcade game.
• Cinematronics manufactures Advanced Microcomputer Systems' Dragon's Lair, the first laserdisc video game.
• Atari releases the popular Star Wars vector graphics arcade game.
• Mattel releases Intellivision World Series Baseball, the first video game to use multiple camera angles.
• Williams Electronics releases Vid Kidz's Blaster arcade game.
• Origin Systems publishes its first game and one of the most influential CRPGs, Ultima III: Exodus. It introduced the concept of controlling an entire party and a cohesive story to the Ultima series.
• Electronic Arts publishes Dan Bunten's M.U.L.E., an influential multiplayer strategy game.
• Electronic Arts publishes Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set, which introduced the "builder" (or "construction set") class of games.
• Konami releases Gyruss designed by Yoshiki Okamoto. It is one of the first arcade games with pseudo-3D graphics and the first with stereo sound.
• Bug-Byte releases Manic Miner by Matthew Smith - a highly influential platform game

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Hardware

• July - SEGA's SG-1000 released in Japan.
• July 15 - Nintendo releases the Famicom home console in Japan.

• Coleco Industries releases the Adam home computer.
• Mattel releases the Aquarius home computer; releases the Intellivision II home console

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Business

• New companies: Infogrames Entertainment SA, Interplay Entertainment Corp., Navarre Corporation, AM2, Origin Systems, Inc.
• Defunct companies: Many companies are affected by the video game crash
• MCA vs Nintendo lawsuit: MCA sues Nintendo over the title resemblance of the Donkey Kong video game to the King Kong movie. MCA loses the case
• Atari, Inc. v. Coleco.