1979 in video gaming
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Business
- New companies: Activision, Edu-Ware, Infocom, Strategic Simulations, Capcom
- The US market for arcade games earns a revenue of $1.5 billion[1] (equivalent to $4.89 billion in 2024).
Notable releases
Games
- Arcade
- October, Namco releases early color game Galaxian.
- August, Atari releases Lunar Lander.
- November, Atari releases Asteroids, which becomes Atari's second best selling game of all time and displaces Space Invaders as the most popular game in the US.
- November, Vectorbeam releases Tail Gunner, a space shooter with a first-person perspective.
- December, Nintendo releases Radar Scope, featuring a pseudo-3D, third-person perspective.
- Cinematronics releases Warrior.
- Sega releases Monaco GP, featuring full-color and one of their last discrete logic (no CPU) hardware designs.
- Computer
- August, Automated Simulations releases Temple of Apshai, one of the first graphical role-playing games for home computers.[2] It remains the best-selling computer RPG through to 1982.[3]
- October, subLOGIC releases Flight Simulator for the Apple II.
- Richard Garriott creates Akalabeth, a computer role-playing game for the Apple IIe. It launches Garriott's career and is a precursor to his highly successful Ultima series.
- Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw create what is commonly recognized as the first playable MUD.[4]
- Console
- December, Atari Adventure for the Atari 2600. It is recognized as the first visual adventure game, or action-adventure, and has one of the first known Easter eggs in a video game.
Hardware
- Computer
- June, Texas Instruments releases the TI-99/4, the first home computer with a 16-bit processor.
- September, NEC releases the PC-8001, the first in the PC-8000 Series of home computers.
- Console
- Mattel test markets the Intellivision console in Fresno, California. It is released throughout the United States in 1980.
- Handheld
- November, Milton Bradley Company releases the first handheld game console, the Microvision.
- Nintendo's Gunpei Yokoi begins development on the Game & Watch, released as a line of handheld electronic games in 1980.
References
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20071222225649/http://www.replaymag.com/history.htm
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- ↑ http://www.iol.ie/~ecarroll/mud/mudhistory.html
