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The Brown Box
Time.comGerman born television engineer Ralph Baer and his coworkers invent the first video gaming console with twelve games.The Brown Box was the first gaming console for a standard television. -
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Odyssey
Time.comBaer,inventor of video games,presents his work,the brown box to Magnavox.Magnavox thn decides to create the first commercia gaming console featuring 6 cartidges and 12 games.Unfortunately the Odyssey was only exclusive for Magnavox TVs. -
Pong
Time.comIn 1975,after Nolen Bushnell founds Atari,the company comes out with its first big arcade game "Pong".Equivlent to pingpong or table tennis Pong skyrocketed Atari,becoming the household name status. -
Atari 2600 VCS
Time.comAfter realizing a single gaming console's popularity Atari begins working on a cartridge based system,the project was known as Stella,that could play multiple games.But after Bushnell sells Atari to Warner Communications in 1976,Warner delays the project.The Atari VCS is later renamed the Atari 2600and released in 1977 becoming a huge success with games like Space Invaders,Breakout,Missile Command,and Combat -
Intellivision
intellivisionIn 1980,Mattel releases its first gaming console,"Intellivision",becoming Atari's first competitor.Intellivision had slightly better graphics than the Atari 2600,as well as the first synthesized voices in video games too.Both consoles attracted many third-party game developers like Coleco and Activision,but the situation of unlicensed games and new home systems such as ColecoVision,Atari 5200 and Vectrex which lead to a major video-game industry crash in 1983-84 in which many companies bankrupt
