Journey

Journey (arcade) 1983

First game with digitised graphics

Arcade system: Bally Midway MCR-2

Gameplay video

Earliest Magazine review -Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games (1983)

Magazine review-Enter  (1983)

Trivia:
1) Game presents american rock band Journey. The release was intended to coincide with a US tour by the band.
2) This game features digitized photographs of the members of the band at the time of release: Steve Perry, Neal Schon, Steve Smith, Jonathan Cain and Ross Valory, as well as a looping excerpt from the band's hit song "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", played by a cassette player inside the cabinet.

3) Digitized graphics refers to the practice of putting pictures or video of actual human beings into video games as sprites.

4) Emulated in: MAME