The Atari 2600 and 5200 both arrived this generation in the late ’70s and early ’80s, setting the standard for ...

but the first generation of video games also had the important duty of introducing the public to gaming. In order to accomplish this, they needed to be easy for the average person to understand. Take ...

Each generation since then has enjoyed ... Now widely regarded as the first video game to achieve serious commercial success, Atari’s 1972 Pong allowed two people to play a basic game of table ...