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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.
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In 1972, Magnavox released the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console which could be connected to a TV set.
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By 1978, video games were well established in the U.S. coin-operated amusement industry arcades were invented by Nolan Bushnell
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Some popular arcade games include Space invadors, Asteroids, Missile Command, Tempest, Galaga, Galaxian, Defender, Pac Man and most popular Donkey kong
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While the fruit of retail development in early video games appeared mainly in video arcades and home consoles home computers began appearing in the late 1970s and were rapidly evolving in the 1980s allowing their owners to program simple games. Hobbyist groups for the new computers soon formed and PC game software followed. Soon many of these games at first clones of mainframe classics and then later ports or clones of popular arcade games https://www.bestbuy.com/site/video-games
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The Nintendo Entertainment System (abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit video game console, which released in North America in 1985, and in Europe throughout 1986 and 1987. The console was initially released in Japan as the Family Computer (abbreviated as Famicom) in 1985.
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The console was released on September 9th, 1995 the PlayStation was very popular and the PlayStation is the first "computer entertainment platform" to ship 100 million units, which it had reached 9 years and 6 months after its initial launch.
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The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001, in North America, it was the beginning of the popularity of multiplayer games through the internet
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On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced iPhone at the Macworld convention, this was the beginning to the popularity of mobile games
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Through 2012 to currently games start rapidly becoming more realistic games like GTA 5, Battlefield 1 and rainbow 6 siege and so much more
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