What year should we consider the dawn of gaming?

[Alex_The_Hedgehog]

The_Liquid_Laser said:

1972 - Pong was the dawn of gaming.

Games on mainframes and the Magnavox Odyssey are interesting facts, but they didn't creating the entertainment medium known as gaming. Pong was the first game with significant commercial appeal. It's not enough to simply create a video game if no one wants to play it.

That's a very good point.