First arcade videogame

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). Galaxy Game was a two-player console unit was inspired by the mainframe game Spacewar! (Steve Russell, 1962). Priced at 10 cents a go, the objective was to destroy your rival’s spaceship and students queued up for more than an hour to play.