1978 IN VIDEO GAMING

Contents

Events

Notable releases

Hardware

Business

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.

★ Entreprex releases the Apollo 2001 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.