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- 1Galaxy Game, the earliest arcade machine, restored at Interim Computer Museum●Galaxy Game – Interim Computer Museum
The Interim Computer Museum has published a write-up on Galaxy Game, the coin-operated space combat game installed at Stanford University in 1971, widely regarded as the first arcade video game. The post covers the machine's history and preservation, and early comments on the museum's blog show enthusiasts debating its place in computing history alongside Pong and other early experiments.
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Galaxy Game, built at Stanford University in 1971, is widely considered the first coin-operated video game, predating Computer Space. A blog post from the Computer History Museum, which preserves the surviving machine, has drawn fresh attention to its history and place as the origin of the arcade gaming industry.