1977 in video gaming

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1977 in games

Notable events of 1977 in computer and video games. See also history of computer and video games.

Events

Atari 2600 was the first successful console to use cartridges.

October - Warner Communications' Atari releases the Atari 2600 home console (originally named Video Computer System)

Market saturation of PONG clones causes sharp drop in demand and prices for the machines.
Bally/Midway releases the Bally Home Library Computer home console
Nintendo Co. Ltd. releases the Color TV Game 4 home console and the Color TV Game 6 home console
Namco renamed from Nakamura Manufacturing Ltd.
Zork written on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling. They would later found Infocom to sell the game for home computers.
Kelton Flinn begins work on Air at the University of Virginia with John Taylor. They would later found Kesmai to offer online games for home computers. Air is a text-based air combat game that foreshadows the arrival in 1987 of the first-ever MMOG, Air Warrior, designed by Flinn and Taylor and developed by Kesmai.