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The Ping-O-Tronic (stylized on its logo as ping • o • tronic and also known as Zanussi Ping-O-Tronic or Sèleco Ping-O-Tronic) is a dedicated first-generation home video game console produced by Zanussi, an Italian home appliance company, and released under their Sèleco brand in late-1974 only in Italy.
The result was the first of several dedicated consoles—consoles that could only play games built into the system—in the Magnavox Odyssey series, the Magnavox Odyssey 100 and Magnavox Odyssey 200, as part of the first generation of video game consoles; the Odyssey 100 was only capable of playing the ping-pong and hockey games from the ...
A dedicated console differs from a handheld TV game (or a "plug and play game") in that the latter integrates the video game console with the game controller. Most modern dedicated home game systems are popularly referred to as "plug and play" because they are based on modern technology which enables the hardware and software of the entire game ...
A simple game of ping-pong made video games into a force to be reckoned with in 1972. Atari's 'Pong' pressed play on the video game revolution on this day in 1972 Skip to main content
Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari for arcades.It is one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, but Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney were surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work and decided to manufacture the game.
In the history of video games, the first generation era refers to the video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available from 1972 to 1983. Notable consoles of the first generation include the Odyssey series (excluding the Magnavox Odyssey 2), the Atari Home Pong, [1] the Coleco Telstar series and the Color TV-Game series.
The MSX system, released in 1983, [10] was designed to be plug and play from the ground up, and achieved this by a system of slots and subslots, where each had its own virtual address space, thus eliminating device addressing conflicts in its very source.
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