The Atari 2600 Video games have been around since the early 1970s. The first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space by Nutting Associates , was introduced in 1971. In 1972, Atari introduced Pong to the arcades. An interesting item to note is that Atari was formed by Nolan Bushnell , the man who developed Computer Space. He left Nutting Associates to found Atari, which then produced Pong, the first truly successful commercial arcade video game. Pong was a great hit when it came out. Move your cursor to get the slides to bounce back the moving square -- it will speed up as you progress. That same year, Magnavox offered the first home video game system. Dubbed the Odyssey , it did not even have a microprocessor! The core of the system was a board with about four-dozen transistors and diodes . The Odyssey was very limited -- it could only produce very simple graphics, and required tha...
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