Fantastic worlds full of adventure

Video games had a humble start. Now they are a global phenomenon.

Fifty years ago, in 1972, Atari released an arcade game called Pong, in which users hit a ball back and forth between two paddles. It was a big success and helped launch video games to new levels of popularity, paving the way for thousands of games to follow. The first home consoles In the mid-1960s, engineer Ralph Baer had an idea: to create a device for playing games at home on TV sets. The “Brown Box,” the first home video game console, was released in 1972 but didn’t sell well. After Pong became an arcade hit, however, Atari released a version in 1975 that could be played at home. It sold 150,000 units that year. Two years later, the company’s follow-up to Pong, the Atari 2600, was also a big…

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