In 1980, after a nine game winning streak, the Falcons posted a franchise then-best record of 12 – 4 and captured their first NFC West division title.

By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.

Meier admits to " borrowing " many of the technology tree ideas from a board game also called Civilization, published in the United Kingdom in 1980 by Hartland Trefoil ( later by Gibson Games ), and in the United States in 1981 by Avalon Hill.

The 1980 game The Prisoner incorporated ELIZA-style interaction within its gameplay.

It took until 1982 for the two bodies to merge, but this allowed the introduction of women's field hockey to the Olympic games from 1980 where, as in the men's game, The Netherlands, Germany, and Australia have been consistently strong.

The 1980 port of the game for the TI-99 / 4A differs quite a bit from the original while retaining the same concept.

The console was test marketed in Fresno, California, in 1979 with a total of four games available, and was released nationwide in 1980 with a price tag of US $ 299 and a pack-in game: Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack.

He did not miss a league game for Liverpool until the 1980 – 81 season, when he appeared in 34 out of 42 league games and scored only eight goals as Liverpool finished fifth in the league, but still won the European Cup and Football League Cup.

MUD, better known as Essex MUD and MUD1 in later years, ran on the Essex University network until late 1987, becoming the first Internet multiplayer online role-playing game in 1980, when Essex University connected its internal network to ARPANet.

In the summer of 1980 University of Virginia classmates John Taylor and Kelton Flinn wrote Dungeons of Kesmai, a six player game inspired by Dungeons & Dragons which used Roguelike ASCII graphics.

* 1980 – Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.

* Milton ( game ), a vintage electronic game made in 1980 by Milton Bradley

" In 1980 a second game was released: The Mad Magazine Card Game by Parker Brothers.

The first curses library was developed at the University of California at Berkeley, for a BSD operating system, around 1980 to support a screen-oriented game.

* Phoenix ( video game ), 1980 arcade game developed by Amstar Electronics, and licensed to Centuri and Taito

Because of difficulties in human lookahead — peculiar to Reversi because of the apparent strategic meaninglessness of internal disks ( making blindfold games — if not virtually impossible without enormous dedication — more difficult than is the case in, say, chess ) and the attractiveness of the game to programmers — the best Othello computer programs have easily defeated the best humans since 1980, when the program The Moor beat the reigning world champion.

* Rogue ( video game ), a 1980 dungeon-crawling video game

Steve Jackson Games ( SJG ) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.

The game was played on January 20, 1980, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, and was attended by a Super Bowl record 103, 985 spectators.

Super Bowl XV was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Oakland Raiders and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Philadelphia Eagles to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 1980 season.

Injuries during the 1980 regular season had limited him to just 778 yards, but he proved he was fully recovered in the postseason by rushing for 194 yards in the NFC title game.

Personal Software published what would become the first part of the trilogy under the name Zork when it was first released in 1980, but Infocom later handled the distribution of that game and their subsequent games.

In this instance, there was a dosage of 562 during the first two hours and a total dosage of 1980 for the four-hour period, a four-fold increase.

* In 1980, Gérard d ' Aboville was the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean rowing solo.

He was followed by Jean Picker Firstenberg who held the position of President and CEO from 1980 to 2007.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* 1980 – Azaria Chamberlain disappears, probably taken by a dingo, leading to what was then the most publicized trial in Australian history.

* 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.

In September 1980, Abadan was almost overrun during a surprise attack on Khuzestan by Iraq, marking the beginning of the Iran – Iraq War.

AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

In the fall of 1980, she transferred to Vanderbilt University, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta.

Being behind the technological curve was not entirely surprising ; the chipset used in the 400 and 800 was designed because they were aware the 2600 would be obsolete by the 1980 time frame.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

Between 1980 to 1986, Sakharov was kept under tight Soviet police surveillance.

Sakharov was named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

In 1980, Sakharov was stripped of all Soviet awards for " anti-Soviet activities ".

Rabbi Steinsaltz's classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages.

Ahmed Ibrahim al-Haznawi (, ) ( October 11, 1980 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of four hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 as part of the September 11 attacks.

They later married on October 11, 1975, and their only child, Chelsea, was born on February 27, 1980.

Seretse Khama, a leader in the independence movement and the legitimate claimant to the Ngwato chiefship, was elected as the first president, re-elected twice, and died in office in 1980.