Happy Birthday Pong! Today the home console Atari, launched on Aug. 3, 1975 , is 40 years old and although not having the record as the world’s first home console ever to consider what has started the revolution of the video game home.
The first was the Magnavox Odyssey
We need to give about the primacy as the first home console sold in the world, the Magnavox Odyssey made by the father of video games Ralph H. Baer, recently deceased, launched in 72, but never able to achieve the results obtained from the console Atari license plate. Suffice it to say that in two years after the launch were 350,000 of them were sold, against 150,000 Home Pong by Atari sold only in the Christmas period, after the arrival on the market.
Home Pong, revolution blows of racket
The Home of Atari Pong (the exact name of this console from home), was launched on Aug. 3, 75 and was an immediate success, allowing gamers to play in a home version of the famous “Pong” u No simple tennis game in black and white , which is also able to revolutionize the world of video games and declare the global success of the company Atari, founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1972 and that over time, as one of its employees, the founders of Apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak .
Home Pong was nothing more than a” box “design is not just sophisticated, with Two Spartans joystick and connected to the television . Simple, simple as it was Pong, but to revolutionize forever the world of video games, with a market that has grown exponentially since then and ready to touch an sales of over $ 120 billion in 2015 and all thanks to Pong!
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