[game_player_s]

I think this is a rather fantastic inquiry.

As far as a video game originating "action figure", I'm going to throw out a guess of it being Pac-Man, as there were quite a lot of Pac-Man toys made back then. I recall my sister (older than I) having a wind-up Pac-Man that rolled around with mouth chomping action, which that wasn't a action figure persay, but I'm betting there were figures.

As for non-game originating characters with action figures, perhaps either Tron or G.I. Joe. Again hard to say, this is a really early time period we're discussing here. Hopefully others will weigh in on this subject.