their premium service, Showtime, nationally on July 1, 1976, after a brief, wildly successful test launch on their cable system in Dublin, California. Australia In 1974, Australian TV tests color transmissions (full-time color comes in 1975). Popular shows during the decade include, Young Talent Time, Number 96, The Aunty Jack Show, Class of '74, The Sullivans, The Don Lane Show, Cop Shop, The Naked Vicar Show, The Paul Hogan Show and Countdown. South Africa South Africa saw nationwide television service for the first time on January 5, 1976, although limited-view, locally available television began on May 5, 1975. Computer and video games Popular and notable video games of the 1970s include: Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pong, and Breakout. Golden age of video arcade games Gun Fight was the first video game to contain a microprocessor. The Oregon Trail was the first publicly available educational video game made available for widespread use in schools on December 3, 1971. The game is a cult classic and is still used today, in a wide variety of formats, through emulators and on smart phones. The first commercially available video game console, entitled Magnavox Odyssey, was released in September 1972, created by Ralph H. Baer. 1974: Both Maze War (on the Imlac PDS-1 at the NASA Ames Research Center in California) and Spasim (on PLATO) appeared, pioneering examples of early multiplayer 3D first-person shooters. In 1976, Mattel introduced the first handheld electronic game with the release of Mattel Auto Race. Then, in 1976, William Crowther wrote the first modern text adventure game, Colossal Cave Adventure. Apple, Inc. ushered in the modern personal computing age with its June 1, 1977, launch of the first mass-produced personal computer, the Apple II. Although many business-focused personal workstations were available to corporations years earlier, the Apple II has the distinction of being the first to produce personal computers specifically targeted to home users, beating the Commodore PET and Atari 400 to the market by five months. Its initial price tag was US$4999.99 for the CPU only. The Atari 2600 was released in October 1977 and was a huge commercial success. It was challenged by the Magnavox Odyssey² and Intellivision. Fairchild Channel F from 1976 becomes the first programmable ROM cartridge-based video game console. The Microvision was the very first hand-held game console using interchangeable cartridges. It was released by the Milton Bradley Company in November 1979. Sports The 1972 Summer