In Fall, Magnavox discontinues the original Odyssey video game console.
New companies: Cinematronics, Enix
September, Epoch releases Japan's first home video game console, the TV Tennis Electrotennis. Its most unusual feature is that the console (including the controller) is wireless, functioning through a UHF antenna.
December, Atari and Tele-Games (a division of Sears, Roebuck and Company) release the first official home version of Pong through Sears department stores.
Magnavox releases two new models of their Odyssey console: the Odyssey 100 and the Odyssey 200.
February, Midway releases Taito's 1974 arcade racing video game Speed Race, designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, in North America as Wheels and Racer.
February, Horror Games, founded by Nolan Bushnell, publishes its only game, Shark Jaws, intended to cash-in on the popularity of Steven Spielberg's film Jaws.
Taito releases Western Gun, the first video game to depict human-to-human combat. Designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, the game had two distinct joystick controls per player, with one eight-way joystick for moving the computerized cowboy around on the screen and the other for changing the shooting direction.
November, Midway releases Gun Fight, an adaptation of Taito's Western Gun and the first microprocessor-based video game. Taito's Western Gun used TTL-based hardware, which Dave Nutting Associates ported to the Intel 8080 microprocessor for its North American release.
Don Daglow develops Dungeon, an early role-playing video game, for the PDP-10.
William Crowther develops Adventure (also known as Colossal Cave and ADVENT), the first interactive fiction game, for the PDP-10.
Rusty Rutherford develops pedit5, the first dungeon crawl game, for the PLATO system.
dnd, the first video game to include a boss, and arguably the first computer role-playing game, wrapped up initial development. Some sources list the game as 1974; it is unclear exactly when it became playable.
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