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- Space Travel is written by Ken Thompson for a Multics system.
- Hamurabi, one of the first strategy video games, is released.
- SEGA produced light gun video games which resemble first-person shooter video games, but were in fact electro-mechanical games that used rear image projection in a manner similar to the ancient zoetrope to produce moving animations on a screen.[1] The first of these was the light gun game Duck Hunt,[2][3] which featured animated moving targets on a screen, printed out the player's score on a ticket, and had sound effects that were volume controllable.[2]
- SEGA released an early electro-mechanical arcade racing game Grand Prix, which had a first-person view, electronic sound, a dashboard with a racing wheel and accelerator,[4] and a forward-scrolling road projected on a screen.[5]
- SEGA's Missile was an electro-mechanical shooter and vehicle combat simulation that featured electronic sound and a moving film strip to represent the targets on a projection screen. It was also the earliest known arcade game to feature a joystick with a fire button, which was used as part of an early dual-control scheme, where two directional buttons are used to move the player's tank and a two-way joystick is used to shoot and steer the missile onto oncoming planes displayed on the screen; when a plane is hit, an explosion is animated on screen along with an explosion sound.[6]
References[ | ]
- ↑ D.S. Cohen, Killer Shark: The Undersea Horror Arcade Game from Jaws, About.com, http://classicgames.about.com/od/arcadegames/p/KillerShark.htm, retrieved 2011-05-03
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 1969 Sega Duck Hunt (Arcade Flyer). pinrepair.com. Retrieved on 2011-05-03
- ↑ Duck Hunt (1969) at Museum of the Game
- ↑ Grand Prix at Museum of the Game
- ↑ Bill Loguidice & Matt Barton (2009), Vintage games: an insider look at the history of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the most influential games of all time, p. 198, Focal Press, ISBN 0240811461
- ↑ Missile at Museum of the Game
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