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Computer Space launched the video game industry 50 years ago – here's the real reason you probably haven't heard of it

Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today's US$175 billion industry debuted on Oct. 15, 1971, at the Music Operators of America trade show in ...
The Conversation

“Computer Space” launched the video game industry — then fell into a black hole

Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today’s US$188 billion industry debuted on Oct. 15, 1971, at the Music Operators of America trade show in ...
AOL

Pong Wasn’t Actually the First Arcade Video Game Ever Made – a Stranger, Forgotten Machine Called Computer Space Beat It to Market by an Entire Year

In November 1971, a chrome-flecked cabinet shaped like something out of a Jetsons fever dream started eating quarters in a bowling alley near Sunnyvale, California. It wasn’t Pong. Pong didn’t exist ...
New Atlas

Dawn of the arcade game: Three pivotal video games from the early 70s

Landmark historical relics don't usually slip past at public auction unnoticed, but as we demonstrated in this recent article, it does happen. Now three priceless relics from gaming antiquity are ...
Hackaday

Computer Space

A few weeks ago we brought you news of a project to recreate the flowing lines of the first computerised arcade game, Computer Space, as a full-size 3D printed replica. We left the project with all ...