Taito's "Basketball", the First Video Game to Represent Player Characters as Human Player Images

The first video game to represent player characters as human player images was Taito's Basketball, which was licensed in February 1974 to Midway, releasing it as TV Basketball in North America. ^2][3]

Basketball was the first basketball video game, It was also the first Japanese video game licensed for release in North America. 1,400 units were sold in 1974, a production record for Midway at the time.