In the United States,Play Meter magazine began publishing annual lists of top-grossing arcade games in 1977. The following titles were the top ten highest-earning arcade video games of the year on the annualPlay Meter andRePlay charts. Lifetimearcade cabinet sales are also given in a separate column.
Nakamura Manufacturing Ltd. formally changes its name toNamco (which it has employed as abrand name since 1971), and establishes Namco Enterprises Asia Ltd. inHong Kong, its firstsubsidiary based outsideJapan.[12]
Coleco releases a number of new models of theTelstar series: the Telstar Alpha, the Telstar Colormatic, the Telstar Regent, the Telstar Ranger, the Telstar Galaxy, and the Telstar Combat. Most of these systems feature only minor variations on the original Telstar model, such as newcontroller types (for example, the Ranger featured alight gun, while the Galaxy includedjoysticks).[15]
Nintendo releases theColor TV-Game 6 dedicated home video game console, featuring six variations ofLight Tennis (aPongclone). Nintendo's partner,Mitsubishi, produces most of the system's hardware components.[19]
Philico releases theTelejogo dedicated home video game console, featuring three pre-installed games.
^Steven L. Kent (2000),The first quarter: a 25-year history of video games, BWD Press, p. 83,ISBN0-9704755-0-0, retrievedApril 9, 2011,Sea Wolf, which was another creation of Dave Nutting, did solid business, selling more than 10,000 machines. (A later color version sold an additional 4000 units.)
^"昔(1970年代）のテレビゲームは何台売れた？" [How many old (1970s) video games sold?].Classic Videogame Station Odyssey (in Japanese).Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. RetrievedApril 16, 2021.
