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Video Games of 1974

Let's celebrate the best video games of 1974, including PC and console games. Here’s a list of the most popular videogames released in 1974 organised by Genre, Platform and Publisher

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Gran Trak 10
Platform: Arcade
Genre: Racing
Publisher: Atari
Formula K
Asteroid
VideoSport MK2
Pin Pong
Fascination
Outline: Nintendo's adult oriented first person full-motion video light gun shooter arcade where the player shoots clothes off of a beautiful Swedish model in an Old West dress as she dances and strips for the player.
Super Star Trek
Outline: An updated version of Star Trek (1971). The aim of the game is still to destroy the Klingon ships within a time limit.
Speed Race
Star Trader
Outline: Star Trader is a 1974 video game and an early example of the space trading genre. The game involves a single player moving from star to star on a map of the galaxy, buying and selling quantities of six types of merchandise in order to make money.
Balloon Gun
TV Basketball
Airfight
Astro Hockey
Basketball
Trak 10
Rebound
Platform: Arcade
Genre: sport
Qwak!
Platform: Arcade
Genre: Shooter Gun game
Hesitation
Quadra Pong
Maze War
Platform: Imlac PDS-1, Macintosh, NeXT Computer, Palm OS, Xerox Star, X Window System
Genre: First-person shooter
Outline: Players navigate a maze, engaging in combat with other players or computer-controlled opponents. Scoring is based on eliminating targets, with penalties for being shot and subsequent teleportation to a random location within the maze.