The Birth Of Game Consoles
- Pong is widely regarded as the first mainstream success of the arcade gaming revolution and was released by one of the first video game companies, Atari.
- The company was responsible for taking arcade games into homes, by releasing the first home video game consoles having Pong and Space Invaders.
- The 80s saw mainstream action on the arcade front with Super Mario, Tetris, Pacman among other iconic titles that made youngsters throng the neon-lit amusement arcades.
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Though 1972’s Pong has often been credited as the first popular video game, the mantle goes to Tennis For Two, which was created by a nuclear physicist, William Higinbotham, in 1958.
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