1975 in video gaming

Events

 * Video game console sales earn $22 million in the United States.

Arcade Games

 * 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 Games releases Gun Fight, an adaptation of Taito's Western Gun and the first arcade video game to use a microprocessor, which the original incarnation did not use, allowing for improved graphics and smoother animation.
 * Taito releases Interceptor, an early first-person shooter and combat flight simulator, controlled using an eight-way joystick to aim a crosshair at enemy sprites that scale in size depending on their distance to the player.

Console

 * September: Epoch Co. releases Japan's first home video game console, Electrotennis, a home version of Pong, several months before the release of Home Pong in North America. Its most unique feature is that the console (including the controller) is wireless, functioning via a UHF antenna.