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Video Games Brought to Life

The screen was grainy black-and-white. A fuzzy white ball drifted from one side to the other, chiming a satisfying "pong" as it bounced off skinny, player-controlled rectangles and reversed direction. And so Pong, the first popular video game, was introduced in 1972.
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By Michael J. Toscano

 
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