Taito releases Western Gun, the first video game to depict human-to-human combat.[8][9] Designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, the game had two distinct joystick controls per player, with one eight-way joystick for moving the computerized cowboy around on the screen and the other for changing the shooting direction.[10][11] November – Midway releases Gun Fight, an adaptation of Taito's Western Gun and the first microprocessor-based video game.[12] Taito's Western Gun used TTL-based hardware, which Dave Nutting Associates ported to the Intel 8080 microprocessor for its North American release.[13]