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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Notable releases 1.2 Hardware 1.3 Business

Events

Notable releases

• June - Taito Corporation releases the Space Invaders arcade game in Japan.
• October - Namco releases their first arcade game, Gee Bee in Japan.
• Cinematronics releases the Space Wars vector graphics arcade game.
• Konami Corporation releases the Block Game arcade game.
• One of the first sim games, Killer Shrews, based on the cult movie The Killer Shrews, is programmed on the PDP-10 mainframe at Claremont Graduate University by Don Daglow.[1]

Hardware

• APF Electronics, Inc. releases the APF-M1000 home console.
• Bally/Midway releases the Bally Professional Arcade home console.
• Elektor releases the TV Games Computer.
• Entreprex releases the Apollo 2001 home console.
• Interton releases the VC 4000 home console.
• Magnavox releases the Odyssey² (G7000 Videopac) home console.
• Nintendo releases the Color TV Game 15 home console and the Computer Othello arcade game.
• Warner Communications' Atari introduces the trak-ball controller on the arcade game Football; releases the Pinball Game System home console.

Business

• SNK founded.

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