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Computer Space is a space combat arcade video game released in 1971. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering, it was the first arcade video game as well as the first commercially available video game. Computer Space is a derivative of the 1962 computer game Spacewar!, which is possibly the first video
Cinematronics releases Space Wars, the first vector graphics arcade game. Kee Games releases Drag Race, which was later adapted in 1980 into an Atari 2600 video game by Activision called Dragster. Atari, Inc. releases Canyon Bomber. Atari, Inc releases Super Bug, which was designed by Howard Delman who also designed Canyon Bomber.
Up until the late 1990s, arcade video games were the largest [1] and most technologically advanced [2] [3] sector of the video game industry. The first arcade game, Computer Space, was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, the founders of Atari, Inc., and released in 1971; the company followed on its success the next year with Pong.
After its founding in 1972, Atari released Pong, believed to be the third arcade video game after Computer Space and a clone game and the first commercially successful arcade video game machine, [2] and thereafter produced numerous arcade games, including video games and pinball machines.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and home computer company founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.Atari was a key player in the formation of the video arcade and video game industry.
October – Coin-operated games company For-Play Manufacturing in California releases Star Trek (1972) – a presumed clone of Nutting Associates’ Computer Space. [15] November – Atari Inc. releases their game Pong, shipping it to local distributors in the Northern California area. The game becomes a hit in the local area and launches Atari ...
In 1971, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded a small engineering company, Syzygy Engineering, [21] that designed Computer Space, the world's first commercially available arcade video game, for Nutting Associates. On June 27, 1972, the two incorporated Atari, Inc. and soon hired Al Alcorn as their first design engineer.
Video games transitioned into a new era in the early 1970s with the launch of the commercial video game industry in 1971 with the display of the coin-operated arcade game Galaxy Game and the release of the first arcade video game Computer Space, and then in 1972 with the release of the immensely successful arcade game Pong and the first home ...