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A MIT student by the name Steve Russell creates a computer-based game. This game that he created is called "spacewar." It becomes popular and begins to spread to computers over the decade.
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in 1966, Ralph Baer was waiting for his friend, he got an idea to create games to play on the TV. He wrote down his ideas and went to work. A year later (1967) he created the first video game console named: "the brown box"
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The company Magnavox saw what Ralph has done and was impressed so they decided to do their own thing. It took them 4 years, but they created the first home video game system. This system or console is know as "Odyssey"
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Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn both came togther and created the first arcade game. This game they created was called "pong." it was so popular, when they went and tested it out, people had played it so much, the game jammed.
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atari releases the atari 2600 for everyone. Its anither huge console that got released for the world. It comes with 2 joysticks and 50 games.
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Disney saw an opportunity to make a movie about a video game, and so they did. They released the movie: "tron." This movie was considered to be a hit
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Nintendo came out with a handheld gaming console. This console was known as the gameboy. The gameboy has good gameplay and long battery
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Sony releases the playstation, which costs $100 less then the sega saturn. Then came the release of the playstayion 2 in 2000. It dominted every console and rose to power
