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Sunday, October 19, 2008

A brief history of video games


1961: Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Steve Russell creates Spacewar, considered the first interactive computer game.

1972: Magnavox sells the first home video game system, a TV console invented by Ralph Baer called Odyssey.

1972: Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney start Atari Inc. and hire Al Alcorn, who creates Pong, left. Their first arcade machine, set up in a bar in Sunnyvale, Calif., shuts down within days because its coin box is … Read More Read More

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