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Hello today I'm going to talk about the start of video games so enjoy.

Video games started in labs there was gaint computers the were all used to make a single video game but a man named Ralph Baer thought what if we could play these games on our televisions.

The first ever game console.

In cooperation with Magnavox who distributed and manufactured it in August 1972 the Odyssey Game Console was released. The first ever Video Games Available to the public.

Another Branch of the story.

In about the same time two people Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney were working on something similar in a small company called Atari their first major release was an arcade game called Pong the simple Arcade Game was a smashing success skyrocketing the company.

A clash of two companies.

By 1978 a clash between Atari and a gaming company called Midway was heating up as Midway had Licensed an arcade game for a Japanese company called Taito that put them on the map of gaming companies.

Midways big game.

The game was called Space Invaders it was a game were a little space ship you control was defending earth from aliens the game quickly became the second highest selling game of all time it also started the Golden Age Of Arcade Games.

Atari Strikes Back.

In response to the big game Midway had released Atari released Astroids which was the sixth highest selling arcade game it was good but not good enough to compete against Space Invaders.

A Big Year For Gaming.

In 1980 Color came to arcade games and so did Pac-Man released by the Japanese company Namco Brought to People around the world by Midway and Pac-Man was important to the spread of games into culture Getting Songs Dances and A TV show after it.

The Rise of a Gaint.

One year after the craze that is Pac-Man a game company called Nintendo appeared and threw their hat into the ring with Donkey Kong the first game to have a storyline with the playable character Jumpman becoming the famous Mario.

And that is it for the start of video games up until the Golden Age of Arcade Games with Most of these companies later Evolving and using consoles and Handheld games so that's it.

as in 1972 with a game called Pong the simple Arcade Game was a smashing success and it had it's home release 2 Years Late