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Era 11972–19822 stories
Arcades, first consoles and mainframes
Video games leave the labs: the first home console, arcades, multiplayer games on university mainframes, the first third-party developers and home computers.
Atari
The company that invented mass-market video games as a business: the Pong arcade game of 1972 and the 2600 home console.
What Wikipedia does not have: The company's name is a term from the game of Go, not something invented from scratch.
Magnavox Odyssey
The world's first home video game console: an engineer at a military contractor came up with playing tennis on a television in 1966 and turned it into a product by 1972, but Magnavox sold it only through its own dealers, and…
What Wikipedia does not have: The patent application got ahead of the product by a year and a half.
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