The 12 Biggest Breakthroughs in Gaming Technology

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1 Game Consoles Bring Video Games Home Before there was home gaming people played video games at arcades In 1972 a company called Magnavox released the first home game console This was a small computer system that connected to a television The console was called the Magnavox Odyssey Games were made up of just dots and lines One of the most popular arcade games was Atari’s Pong In 1975 Atari sold a home version of the game Pong was similar to tennis Players used paddles to hit a ball over a net The game had two dimensional 2D graphics In 1977 Atari released a console that played other games Space Invaders and Missile Command became popular In 1985 a Japanese company released a new home gaming console The console’s name was A Magnavox Odyssey 44