Atari's first three video arcade games tell a fascinating story of rapid evolution. At left is the world's first video arcade game ("Computer Space" - 1971), the game it inspired ("Pong" - 1972 ...

The game that launched today’s massive video game industry was not a roaring success when it debuted 52 years ago. The oft-told story of why turns out to be off the mark.

Before Pong, there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The progenitor of today’s $175 billion industry debuted on Oct. 15, 1971, at the Music Operators of America trade show in ...

Detailed views of Computer Space, the world's first coin-operated video game, designed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1971. For the cabinet, Bushnell sculpted a mockup out of modeling clay ...

Unfortunately, "Computer Space" wasn't nearly the success you'd expect the first-ever arcade game to be. That was mostly due to players finding the game's instructions to be too complicated.

Last year we covered the creation of a 3D-printed full-size replica of an original Computer Space arcade machine, the legendary first glimmer from what would become Atari, one of the most famous na… ...

A new book by ExtremeTech editor-in-chief Jamie Lendino shows how coin-op arcade machines set the standards all console and computer games aspired to for the first 25 years of the video game ...