Game Timeline: Before 1980

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NIMROD   51 UK Ferranti International plc
Checkers IBM 701 52 US A. L. Samuel at IBM
OXO EDSAC UK A.S. Douglas
Tennis for Two Oscilloscope 58 US Willy Higginbotham at the Brookhaven National Laboratory
Space War PDP-1 62 US Steve Russell at MIT
The Sumer Game PDP-8 69 US Richard Merrill
Life PDP-7 70 UK M. J. T. Guy and S. R. Bourne
Empire Text 71 US Peter Langston
Colossal Cave Adventure PDP-10 72 US William Crowther
Pong Console US Ralph H. Baer
Maze War Imlac PDS-1 74 US  
Breakout Coin-Op 76 US  
Colossal Cave Adventure PDP-10 US William Crowther/Don Woods
Zork PDP-10 77 US  
Acheton IBM 3084 78 UK PC 1987
Awari BASIC UK Geoff Wyvill
Hamurabi BASIC US David H. Ahl
Lemonade Stand Apple ][ US Bob Jamison
Space Invaders Coin-op Jp Tomohiro Nishikado
Asteroids Coin-op 79 US Lyle Rains, Ed Logg
MUD   UK  
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