- Who
- Galaxy Game (1971)
- What
- first
- Where
- United States (Stanford)
- When
The first coin-operated arcade videogame was Galaxy Game created by Bill Pitts and Hugh Tuck and unveiled in September 1971 in Stanford University, California, USA. This predated the first commercially available coin-op, Computer Space (Nutting Associates), by just two months but was never for mass production. It cost what was then $20,000 (then approximately £6,000).