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==Notable releases== * [[August]]: ''[[Computer Space]]'', the first commercially sold [[Arcade game|arcade video game]], and the first commercially sold [[video game]] of any kind, is [[location test]]ed by [[Nutting Associates]].<ref>http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/what-were-first-ten-coin-op-video-games.html</ref><ref>http://lmc.gatech.edu/~bogost/courses/spring10/lcc8823/lowood.pdf</ref> * In [[September]], Computer Recreations, Inc. installs ''[[Galaxy Game]]'', a version of ''[[Spacewar!]]'' for [[PDP-11]] hardware and one of the first coin-operated [[video arcade]] [[Arcade game|games]], in Tresidder Union at [[Stanford University]].<ref name="galaxy" /> * In [[November]], [[Nutting Associates]] releases 1,500 cabinets of [[Nolan Bushnell]]'s ''[[Computer Space]]'', the first commercially released [[video game]] in the arcades.<ref name="doteaters" /> * [[Don Rawitsch]], Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann, students at [[Carleton College]] develop ''[[The Oregon Trail (computer game)|The Oregon Trail]]'' for a [[Mainframe computer|mainframe]] with [[teletype]] terminals.<ref name="oregon">{{Cite web | url=http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/greatestgames/p-34.html | author=GameSpot Editorial Team | title=The Greatest Games of All Time / Jimmy Has Dysentery | work=[http://www.gamespot.com/ GameSpot] | year=2004 | accessdate=15 February 2006}}</ref> * [[Don Daglow]] programs a [[Baseball (PDP-10)|computer baseball game]] on a [[PDP-10]] [[mainframe computer]] at [[Pomona College]].<ref name="baseball">{{Cite web | url=http://gamedesign.uw.hu/gamedesign0033.html | title=Conclusion | work=[http://gamedesign.uw.hu/ Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games] | accessdate=15 February 2006}}</ref> * [[Mike Mayfield]] develops ''[[Star Trek (text game)|Star Trek]]'' on a [[Scientific Data Systems]] [[SDS Sigma 7|Sigma 7]] [[minicomputer]].<ref name="startrek">{{Cite web | url=http://www3.sympatico.ca/maury/games/space/star_trek.html | title=Star Trek: To boldly go... and then spawn a million offshoots | year=2000 | author=Markowitz, Maury | work=[http://www3.sympatico.ca/maury/games/index.html Games of Fame] | accessdate=15 February 2006 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060209111837/http://www3.sympatico.ca/maury/games/space/star_trek.html |archivedate = 9 February 2006}}</ref>
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