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1962
• MIT student Steve Russell invents
Spacewar!
• The first computer-based video game.
• Over the following decade, the game
spreads to computers across the country.

• In 1971, Nolan Bushnell along with Ted
Dabney (whom later founded Atari
together in 1975) programmed the
SpaceWars! game to play on a television
screenTogether they created the first
Arcade Machine, Computer Space, which
operated at 25 cents per 90 seconds.
1971
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1975
• In 1975, Atari released Pong as a home
video game on their first console
• Pong becomes a huge success among a
teenage market
• The sales of video game entertainment
systems also begin to skyrocketOver the
following decade, the game spreads to
computers across the country.

• From 1977 to the late 1980’s, video
games became extremely popular as
coinoperated machines in arcades.
• Games such as PacMan, Donkey Kong,
and Space Invaders became extremely
successful.
1977
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1972
• In 1972, Ralph Baer created the Magnavox Odyssey.
It was the first video game console playable on
home televisions
• Magnavox mass-produced these consoles which
featured 5 diskettes that generated different code
already located in the machine and 2 huge
controllers that used 6-C batteries apiece
• HAL (A.I.) first introduced
• Atari releases 2600 in 1975, these entertainment
systems are referred to as the 1st generation of
consoles.

• Atari 2600
• Nintendo Entertainment System(NES -
1985)
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• Super Nintendo (SNES)
• Sega Genesis
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