Day: June 9, 1978

Home Run

Home RunAtari releases the baseball cartridge Home Run for the Atari 2600, beefing up the new console’s sports game library but not exactly wowing baseball fans with realistic graphics or game play.

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Jeff Wayne’s War Of The Worlds

Mars invades Earth again thanks to producer Jeff Wayne, who gathers an unlikely assemblage of prodigious talent around him to create a new musical version of H.G. Wells’ The War Of The Worlds. Featuring Richard Burton, Justin Hayward (of Moody Blues fame), Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann) and others, the double-album becomes an instant classic – a science fiction rock opera.

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