Atari releases the arcade video game Black Widow, a twin-joystick vector graphics game. 
Atari releases the arcade video game Black Widow, a twin-joystick vector graphics game.
Williams Electronics releases the arcade video game Sinistar, designed by Noah Falstein and John Newcomer, and coded by a team including R.J. Mical, Sam Dicker, Ken Graham, and Richard Witt. With digitized pre-recorded speech from a professional voice actor lending the titular Sinistar a booming, terrifying voice, the game (and its difficulty) soon become legendary.
The 590th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This story brings back both the Brigadier and the Black Guardian. Nicholas Courtney returns as the Brigadier and Valentine Dyall guest stars as the Black Guardian.
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