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1973 in computer games

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Game Releases

  • Maze War is designed for the Imlac PDS-1 mini-computer . Presumably this is the very first first-person shooter and one of the earliest examples of multiplayer .
  • For the PLATO system comes the game Empire . The game claims to be the title of the first multiplayer network shooter , although since the exact release date of neither Empire nor Mazewar could be established, the title of the championship in this genre is still disputed.
  • Impressed by the Empire game for the PLATO system, Jim Bowrie creates the Spasim game, a three-dimensional multiplayer online game. The game Spasim is another contender for the title of the first three-dimensional multiplayer game.
  • Atari releases Gotcha! - a maze game for arcade machines .
  • Bob Jamison (Bob Jamison) of the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) was developed by Lemonade Stand (Russ. "Lemonade Kiosk") - a text economic game. The player runs a lemonade stand in the fictional city of Lemonsville. Before the start of the game day, the player is given the weather forecast for the day (sunny, cloudy, hot or dry). After that, the player makes a choice of three factors that will affect the business during the day: the number of glasses of lemonade being prepared, the amount of advertising, and the cost of a glass of lemonade. [one]

Technologies

Industry

  • March 19 Kagemasa Kozuki, the owner of Konami , engaged in the production and repair of jukeboxes , in parallel, begins the production of arcade machines .
  • In May, the Kudo brothers founded Hudson Soft ( Sapporo , Japan ), a future video game developer who initially sells telecommunications devices.

Notes

  1. ↑ Computer games 1973 (Unsolved) (inaccessible link) . The date of circulation is March 5, 2014. Archived March 5, 2014.
Source - https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1973_year_in_computer_games&oldid=100887693


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