Early Commercialized Digital Games (1971–1977)
New Technology in the Consumer Market
The 1970s was a decade of technological revolution in the consumer sector that reshaped the nature of entertainment and productivity. Microprocessors and microcontrollers appeared in calculators, microwave ovens, automobiles, and more enabling new degrees of speed and automation. Computer-manipulated and computer-generated imagery first appeared in films such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), Westworld (1973), and Star Wars (1977). Compact cassette tapes for recording audio gained significant traction leading to Sony’s 1979 Walkman, which launched the beginning of portable and individualized music listening. The 1970s saw the first “microcomputers,” ...
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