What year should we consider the dawn of gaming?

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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

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.

Talking of the Magnavox Odyssey created by the man called the father of Video Games Ralph H. Baer and pong from Atari pioneered by Nolan Bushnell, it turns out both have a shared history, Nolan Bushnell wanted a tennis style game so engineer Allen Alcorn designed and built Pong mainly as a training exercise and then it was put into a cabinet and set up in a local cafe where it was popular later on during licencing negotiates Alcorn was called out to fix a problem with the machine only to find out it was caused by being blocked full of coins this lead to Atari deciding not to licence the game and manufacture it themselves where the Magnavox and Ralph H. Baer comes into the picture is Allen Alcorn the creator of Pong says the idea for Pong came from Nolan seeing a demonstration of a Magnavox tennis game, while this shows that mass market success isn't always directly attributable to the markets originators and cross pollinated ideas along with evolution and refinement quite often play a major part in moving things forward, it also shows that without one there wouldn't be the other so using dawn in the context of the beginning I give the dawn of gaming to Ralph H. Baer and the Magnovox .