Best Video Games of the 1970s

Based on this list:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_listed_among_the_best
Platform(s) cover which platform(s) the original release was on, not later releases (if they exist)
Release date is the release date of the original version of the game
The genres listed for each game were taken from their respective WIkipedia pages on April 17, 2026
When there are region differences, NA indicates North America and JP indicates Japan
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Year of Release
Genre(s)
Developer
Publisher
Platform(s)
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1971
Text-based, strategy
Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, Paul Dillenberger
MECC
Minicomputer
The Oregon Trail
1972
Sports
Atari, Inc.
Arcade
Pong
1977
Shooter
Atari, Inc.
Atari 2600
Combat
Interactive fiction, adventure
Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, Dave Lebling
Infocom
PDP-10
Zork
1978
Shoot 'em up
Taito
Arcade
Space Invaders
1979
Shoot 'em up
Atari, Inc.
Atari, Inc. (NA) Taito, Sega (JP)
Arcade
Asteroids
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