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The game causes the first controversy on video game violence when a reporter for the Associated Press writes about its graphic imagery. [11] May – Atari Inc. ships Breakout. The game is a hit in the United States but becomes even bigger in Japan when it is released by Namco. Block breaker games in the country create the first video game boom. [3]
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History of video game consoles. Console war; 1st generation (1972–1983) ... 1976 – The Fairchild Channel F releases, the first console to have cartridges.
Death Race is an arcade driving video game developed and released by Exidy in the United States, first shipping to arcade distributors in April 1976. [2] The game was a modification of Exidy's 1975 game Destruction Derby in which players crashed into cars to accrue points.
1976 flyer advertising the racing game Fonz. The 1970s was the first decade in the history of the video game industry.The 1970s saw the development of some of the earliest video games, chiefly in the arcade game industry, but also several for the earliest video game consoles and personal computers.
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Breakout was an influential game that had an impact on the video game and computer industries. Breakout spawned an entire genre of clones. Ten years later, the concept found new legs with Taito's 1986 Arkanoid, which itself spawned dozens of imitators. In Japan, the genre is known as block kuzushi ("block breaker") games.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.