LogFAQs > #901823516

Lets do this by year really quick.

1972 (pong)...while not a great game, most gamers alive at this time (or eventual gamers), probably eventually tried it...as there were very few options. Games had not really started to take off yet.

1973 (lunar landar)....most also played this, and the original version is in places like the exploritorium in SF so many have tried it many years later.

1974 Atari I think started making stand alone games like it's tank game this year, not much really happened but games still had not taken off.

1975 First very basic dungeon crawlers/dnd games were released, still nothing special.

1976 Breakout (brickout) was released. I made a similar game to this on my own, on the school computer. Few other racing games etc.

1977 Atari and PC games got going. Combat etc for Atari, Zork for PC...this was right before Underground PC games started to take off (many of which are not mentioned anywhere on the net now adays.)

1978 Space invaders and more Atari, along with plenty of underground PC games...which you had to literally buy from warehouses.

1979 More meh atari games, few decent arcade games, nothing great this year really.

1980 Now we are getting going!! Berzerk!!! Fight like a humanoid, Kill the destroyer. Dragon Quest. Missile Command. Pac Man. Rogue and a ton of others. This is...probably the year when games really started to take off. You could (and I did) get a version of Wizardry proving grounds this year...the first real RPG ever...it was world changing, awesome...amazing. This year was when I fell in love with video games.

1981+ I was going to make a list of every year, but honestly there is no point there was always at least a few greta games after 1981...galaga etc was this year, along with tons of other good games (bards tale was around here etc)....there was never a bad year after 1981.
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