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Events on Wednesday 29 November 1972 1
1972Atari releases PongCoin-operated arcade game launches the video game industryAtari installed its first Pong arcade cabinet, a simple tennis-style video game created by Allan Alcorn under Nolan Bushnell's direction. Its runaway popularity in bars and arcades helped establish video games as a mass-market industry. Atari followed with a home console version in 1975.