Galaxy Game
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Galaxy Game is one of the first coin-operated arcade games. It appeared in September 1971, two months before the release of Computer Space, but was never mass-produced.


Influenced by the design of Spacewar!, designers Bill Pitts and Hugh Tuck developed a dime-operated machine out of a PDP-11 computer with vector graphics. The machine resided at Stanford University for nearly 8 years when it was finally decommissioned in May of 1979. It was one of the first commercial arcade games, although it was ostensibly a unique machine, unlike Nolan Bushnell (Person)'s Computer Spacemachine that was to be mass produced and distributed later.

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Game details
Name
Galaxy Game
Release Date
September 1971
Platform
Arcade (Platform)
Genre
Shooter (Genre)
Theme
Sci-Fi (Theme)