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Overview of the events of 1976 in video games
1976 had new titles such as Road Race Night Driver Heavyweight Champ Sea Wolf Breakout arcade games were Namco 's F-1 Midway 's Sea Wolf in the United States.
Highest-grossing arcade games
Japan
In Japan, Game Machine arcade game earnings chart for 1976 in their February 1977 issue, listing both arcade video games and electro-mechanical games (EM games) on the same arcade chart. Namco 's EM racing game F-1 Taito 's video game Ball Park Tornado Baseball by Midway Manufacturing in North America). The following titles were the highest-grossing arcade games of 1976, according to the first annual Game Machine chart.[ 1] [ 2]
Note: Medal games are listed on a separate chart, with Nintendo 's EVR Race [ 1] [ 2]
United States
In the United States, RePlay magazine began publishing annual lists of top-grossing arcade games in 1976, covering both arcade video games and pinball machines. The following titles were the top ten arcade video games of the year, in terms of coin drop earnings.[ 3] arcade cabinet sales are also given in a separate column.
Rank[ 3]
Title
Developer
Manufacturer
Genre
Lifetime cabinet sales
1
Sea Wolf Dave Nutting Associates
Midway Manufacturing
Shooter
10,000[ 4]
2
Gun Fight Western Gun )
Taito
Midway Manufacturing
Shooter
8,600[ 5]
3
Wheels (Speed Race )Taito
Midway Manufacturing
Racing
7,000[ 6]
4
Indy 800 Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc.
Racing
6,495[ 7]
5
Breakout Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc.
Block breaker
11,000[ 7]
6
Indy 4 Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc.
Racing
Unknown
7
Bi-Plane
Fun Games
Fun Games
Shooter
8
Death Race Exidy
Exidy
Racing
Demolition Derby Exidy
Chicago Coin
Trivia
Ramtek
Quiz
Events
Business
Notable releases
Games
January – Sega releases Heavyweight Champ [ 11] hand-to-hand fighting .[ 12] [ 13] [ 14] controls that simulate throwing actual punches.[ 12]
February – Sega releases Road Race [ 15]
April 1 – Exidy releases Death Race [ 16] violence in video games , and is banned in many areas.[ 17]
April – Taito releases Speed Race Twin [ 18] Speed Race that allows simultaneous two-player competitive gameplay[ 19]
May 13[ 20] Breakout Apple Computer cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak , to video arcades .[ 8]
August – Sega releases Man T.T. [ 21] Moto-Cross motorbike racing game, using a pseudo-3D, forward-scrolling, third-person perspective,[ 22] Road Race .[ 23] haptic feedback , causing the handlebars to vibrate during collisions .[ 24] Sega-Gremlin re-brands it as Fonz [ 25]
October – Atari releases Night Driver [ 26] first-person perspective racing video game.
October – Gremlin releases Blockade snake games .
While working at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab , Don Woods discovers and expands Will Crowther 's Adventure James Gillogly ports Woods's version of the interactive fiction title from Fortran to the C programming language for Unix -based computers.[ 27]
Hardware
Notes
References
^ a b "本紙アンケー 〜 ト調査の結果" [Paper Questionnaire: Results of the Survey] (PDF) . Game Machine Amusement Press, Inc. February 1, 1977. pp. 2–3.^ a b "調査対象5年間のベスト1" [Best 1 of the 5 Years Surveyed] (PDF) . Game Machine Amusement Press, Inc. February 15, 1981. p. 1.^ a b "Profit Chart". RePlay . October 1976. ^ Steven L. Kent (2000), The first quarter: a 25-year history of video games ISBN 0-9704755-0-0 , retrieved April 9, 2011 , Sea Wolf, which was another creation of Dave Nutting, did solid business, selling more than 10,000 machines. (A later color version sold an additional 4000 units.) ^ Smith, Alexander (November 19, 2019). They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. I: 1971-1982 CRC Press . p. 262. ISBN 978-0-429-75261-2 ^ Baer, Ralph H. (2005). Videogames: In the Beginning ISBN 978-0-9643848-1-1 ^ a b Product: Total Build (PDF) . Atari Games . 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 10, 2013. Retrieved March 4, 2021 .^ a b Thomas, Donald A. Jr (2005). "–1976–" . ICWhen.com . Archived from the original (shtml) on March 17, 2006. Retrieved February 18, 2006 . ^ TV Games Probed , Reading Eagle (December 21, 1976)^ "The Replay Years: Enter 1976" . RePlay . Vol. 11, no. 2. November 1985. p. 150.^ "Heavyweight Champ (1976) Release Information for Arcade Games - GameFAQs" .^ a b Spencer, Spanner, The Tao of Beat-'em-ups , EuroGamer, February 6, 2008, Accessed February 23, 2009
^ Ashcraft, Brian, (2008) Arcade Mania! The Turbo-Charged World of Japan's Game Centers , (Kodansha International), p. 94
^ Nadia Oxford, 20 Years of Street Fighter , 1UP.com , November 12, 2007
^ "Road Race, Arcade Video game by SEGA Enterprises (1976)" .^ AP (July 2, 1976). "It Offers That Run-Down Feeling" . The Minneapolis Star . p. 3A. Retrieved August 30, 2017 – via Newspapers.com. ^ Gonzalez, Lauren. "When Two Tribes Go to War: A History of Video Game Controversy / The Major Offenders" . GameSpot . Archived from the original on July 18, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2006 . ^ "Speed Race Twin, Arcade Video game by Taito (1976)" .^ Speed Race Twin Killer List of Videogames ^ "Atari - 1972 - 1984" . www.atari.com . Archived from the original on June 11, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .^ "Ryu ga Gotoku Zero: Chikai no Basho , Sony PlayStation 3 disc by SEGA Holdings(2016)" .^ Moto-Cross Killer List of Videogames ^ Road Race Killer List of Videogames ^ Mark J. P. Wolf (2008), The video game explosion: a history from PONG to PlayStation and beyond , p. 39, ABC-CLIO , ISBN 0-313-33868-X
^ Fonz Killer List of Videogames ^ "Night Driver , Arcade Video game by Atari, Inc. (1976)" .^ Adams, Rick. "A history of 'Adventure' . The Colossal Cave Adventure page . Retrieved February 17, 2006 . ^ "Fairchild Video Entertainment System/Channel F" . ClassicGaming.com . Archived from the original on June 10, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2006 .^ Winter, David (2006). "Coleco Telstar" . PONG-Story . Archived from the original on March 2, 2006. Retrieved February 18, 2006 .
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