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[edit] Events

• In Fall, Magnavox discontinues the original Odyssey video game console.^[1]

[edit] Notable releases

• Atari and Tele-Games (a division of Sears, Roebuck and Company) release the first official home version of Pong through Sears department stores.^[2]
• Magnavox releases two new models of their Odyssey console: the Odyssey 100 and the Odyssey 200.^[1]
• 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.^[3]
• Midway releases Gun Fight, the first microprocessor-based video game and the first video arcade game licensed from Japan for release in the United States.^[4] Taito developed the original Japanese version of the game, Western Gun, using TTL-based hardware: Dave Nutting Associates ported the game to the Intel 8080 microprocessor for its American release.^[5]
• Don Daglow develops Dungeon, an early computer role-playing game, for the PDP-10.^[6]
• William Crowther develops Adventure (also known as Colossal Cave and ADVENT), the first interactive fiction game, for the PDP-10.^[7]

• 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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