Computer Space (1971)

A red single-player Computer Space, photographed at Billy's Midway Arcade in January 2025. Nutting Associates released it in 1971, and nothing else in an arcade looked like it: a molded fiberglass shell with a metal-flake finish, swept into a curve that follows the offset control panel. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney built the game before they founded Atari, so this is where the coin-op video game starts, and the cabinet still looks more like a prop from a space movie than a piece of furniture.