Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Atari Game Cabinet Patent

Game Cabinet

Filed August 19th, 1977

A case for an Atari shooting game–I’d forgotten how many early video games involved simulated firearms of one sort of another. I don’t know if the design was used for a specific game that saw release, but it looks a lot like 1974’s Qwak.

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