Video gaming in 1974

Introduction
This is video gaming in 1974. NOTE: Some of this information is from Wikipedia.

Events

 * 1) The official Pong and it's commercial clones exceeded over 100,000 sold units.
 * 2) H.R. "Pete" Kaufman left Ramtek to form Exidy, Inc.
 * 3) Namco acquires the Japanese division of Atari, and formally enters the video arcade game market.
 * 4) Atari acquires Kee Games as a "marketing ploy." Atari used Kee Games until 1978.
 * 5) Royal Philips Electronics NV acquires Magnavox, which becomes Philips Consumer Electronics.

Video game magazine releases

 * 1) The Play Meter magazine was about arcade games. It published it's first issue in this year of video games.

Arcade game releases

 * 1) Taito released the arcade video game called Basketball.
 * 2) Atari releases Grand Trak 10, the first car racing game to video game arcades.
 * 3) Taito releases Tomohiro Nishikado's Speed Race, the second car racing game.
 * 4) Kee Games released the arcade video game called Tank.

Computer game releases

 * 1) Maze War was released for the Imlac PDS-1. The game was developed by Steve Collie, Howard Palmer, and Greg Johnson in 1974.
 * 2) Jim Bowery develops Spasim for the PLATO system. There was a second version released later in the year.
 * 3) Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood develop the video game called dnd. It was the first game with a boss battle. The game was never released, and development continued into 1975, but no one knows what happened to the game.

Video game console releases

 * 1) The Magnavox Odyssey was rereleased in Australia, Belgium, the UK, France, West Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, and Venezuela.
 * 2) The Ping-o-Tronic was released.

Conclusion
So, that is video gaming in 1974. More information coming sometime.