Empire versions I, II and III are developed for the PLATO system by John Daleske. Possibly the first team game ever, the first fifty-player game ever, and numerous other innovations.
Silas Warner takes over PLATO Empire version I and renames it Conquest.
Atari releases Gotcha, the first commercial maze game, to video arcades.[1]
Atari releases Pong Doubles to video arcades. A variation on the wildly successful Pong, Pong Doubles is the first video arcade game to include four-player gameplay.[7]
Atari releases Space Race, the first Arcade Racing game ever.
Williams Electronics releases Paddle Ball, an unlicensed duplicate of Pong, as their first arcade game.[8]
Computer games
Maze War, an ancestor of the first-person shooter genre, was ported to a number of computer systems. The above image was created from a version of the game written for the Xerox Star 8010 in 1985.
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