1971 in video gaming
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Events
- On 22 March, Ralph Baer files with the United States Patent and Trademark Office regarding a patent for "television gaming and training apparatus."<ref name="patent">{{
cite web | url=http://www.thocp.net/software/games/golden_age.htm | author=Stahl, Ted (ed.) | year=2005 | title=Chronology of the History of Video Games / Golden Age | work=The History of Computing Project | accessdate=February 15 | accessyear=2006
}}</ref>
- Magnavox signs a license agreement with Sanders Associates regarding the Odyssey video game console.<ref name="doteaters">{{
cite web | url=http://www.thedoteaters.com/play1sta1.htm | title=Player 1 Stage 1: Bits From the Primordial Ooze | author=Hunter, William | year=2005 | work=The Dot Eaters | accessdate=February 15 | accessyear=2006
}}</ref>
- Nakamura Manufacturing Ltd. adopts "Namco" as a brand name.<ref name="namco">{{
cite web | title=Namco History (English summary) | year=2001 | url=http://www.namco.co.jp/eg/history.html | work=NAMCO WonderPage | accessdate=February 15 | accessyear=2006
}}</ref>
Notable releases
- Nutting Associates releases 1,500 copies of Nolan Bushnell's Computer Space, a free-standing version of Spacewar and the first video arcade game.<ref name="doteaters" />
- Don Rawitsch and two other students of Carleton College develop The Oregon Trail for teletype machines.<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=GameSpot | year=2004 | accessdate=February 15 | accessyear=2006
}}</ref>
- Don Daglow programs the first 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=Game Design Workshop: Designing, Prototyping, and Playtesting Games | accessdate=February 15 | accessyear=2006
}}</ref>
- Mike Mayfield develops Star Trek on a 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=Games of Fame | accessdate=February 15 | accessyear=2006
}}</ref>
References
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