Video Games are 50 years old now

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Video Games are 50 years old now

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Congrats! Loved the may my life :) Happy Birthday games.

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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
efore 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 Chicago. Housed in a futuristic-looking cabinet, Computer Space took its place alongside the latest jukeboxes, pinball machines and other coin-operated games manufacturers were pitching to arcade and bar owners.
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I actually played that arcade game in June of 1972 on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach. I had read an article about the game in Analog magazine when it was being played on the MIT mainframe :wink: . I was excited to find the arcade game, but it was a sunny day and the screen was pretty much unreadable :(
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I got out of the army 50 years ago.
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dbt1949 wrote: Fri Oct 15, 2021 7:48 am I got out of the army 50 years ago.
Do you miss it? :wink:
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I went in the air force after that so I guess I did.
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