First commercially available arcade videogame
- Who
- Computer Space
- What
- First
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- November 1971
The first commercially available arcade videogame was Computer Space (Nutting Associates), released in November 1971, two months after the first arcade videogame, Galaxy Game (Bill Pitts, Hugh Tuck).
The game was cheaper to make than Galaxy Game, which had been created at Stanford University, at $1,000 (£400) per unit. It earned $3 million (£1.17 million) in sales.