First arcade videogame

According to Official Guinness Records,

The first coin-operated arcade videogame was Galaxy Game created by Bill Pitts and Hugh Tuck and unveiled in September 1971 in Stanford University, California, USA. This predated the first commercially available coin-op, Computer Space (Nutting Associates), by just two months but was never for mass production. It cost what was then $20,000 (then approximately £6,000).

For a complete list of 1971 records, please visit 1971 Guinness Records in United States.

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