When was the first home video game released and what was it?

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Technically the first home game system was the "Odyssey" made by Magnavox, and it didn't seem to have named games. It probably did, and I just don't know them. That's 7 years before I was born. :) I think it was 1972 when the Odyssey came out. Atari came out with "Pong" on a home system (not arcade) in 1975. So technically Odyssey, but to name an actual game, I would say Pong on the Atari.

The list of games for the Odyssey

Analogic, Baseball, Basketball, Brain Wave, Cat & Mouse, Dogfight, Football, Fun Zoo, Handball, Haunted House, Hockey, Invasion, Interplanetary Voyage, Percepts, Prehistoric Safari, Roulette, Shooting Gallery, Shootout, Simon Says (in 1978 the designer Ralph Baer created the electronic game for Mattel), Ski, Soccer, States, Submarine, Table Tennis (the first version of Pong that was copied by Atari and sued by Magnavox, Magnavox won) , Tennis, Volleyball, Win, Wipeout.

It was first available in 1972 and discontinued in 1975 selling 330,000 units.

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