TV Game Apparatus

Filed July 5th, 1977

Here’s Bally’s Gun Fight, the first arcade game with a microprocessor, allowing for a a bit of artificial intelligence on the part of your computer-controlled cowboy opponent. I still remember encountering it at the Natick Mall in suburban Boston, when my previous exposure to videogames had mostly been restricted to Pong and variants thereof. Needless to say, it knocked my socks way, way off.