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Events
- March 19 – Kagemasa Kozuki establishes Konami Industry Co., Ltd.[1] Formerly the owner of a jukebox repair/rental business in Osaka, Japan, Kozuki launches Konami to manufacture amusement machines for video arcades.[2]
- May – Hudson Soft Ltd. is established in Sapporo, Japan for the purpose of marketing telecommunications devices and art photographs.[3]
- Taito, an electro-mechanical arcade game manufacturer, enters the video game industry and opens a North American branch.[4]
- Sega, an electro-mechanical arcade game manufacturer, enters the video game industry with Pong clones.
- Computer Space makes appearances in the films Soylent Green and Sleeper.
- Empire versions I, II and III are developed for the PLATO system by John Daleske. Possibly the first team game ever, the first fifty-player game ever, and numerous other innovations.
- Silas Warner takes over PLATO Empire version I and renames it Civilization.
- Lemonade Stand is developed for the first time.
- Maze War, an ancestor of the first-person shooter genre and an early network game, begins development for the Imlac PDS-1 computer.
Notable releases
References
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- ↑ http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/video-game-firsts.html
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