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List of years in video gaming (table)
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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.

History of video games

By generation	First (1972–1977) · Second (1976–1984) · Video game crash of 1983 · Third (1983–1992) · Fourth (1987–1996) · Fifth (1994–2006) · Sixth (1998–) · Seventh (2004–)

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