And although the map will feel microscopic compared to later standards, a game with so many different screens was a rarity at the time. It might not feel epic in length today, but the tension and stress you’ll feel when you encounter one of the game’s dragons (especially if you’re unarmed) is so substantial that it makes up for the brevity. The Atari 2600 was even more technologically limited than arcade games were in 1979, so to pull off this proto-RPG designer Warren Robinett had to focus more on the stakes than the scope. This list is in alphabetical order, and is not ranked. It’s a year worth looking back at, and so that’s what we’re doing, by commemorating the best and most important games released that year. Crucial developments that impacted the industry forever were made in both technology and game design.
Some of the most popular and groundbreaking games of all time were originally released in 1979-games that are still remembered and played to this day, 40 years later. If the computer games of the ‘50s and ‘60s were almost exclusively the domain of computer programmers and computer science majors, the big games of the ‘70s represent the medium’s true mainstream breakthrough into the bars, arcades and living rooms of America. It wasn’t exactly a booming industry back then, of course, which is why most people associate the dawn of videogames with the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. Spacewar was created in 1962, and there were even games made for various computers dating back to 1950. Space Invaders came out the year before, the Atari 2600 the year before that, and Pong all the way back in 1972.
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