PONG

Pong
The real video game history started with Ralph baer as early as 1951
A video game is defined as an apparatus that displays games using RASTER VIDEO equipment; a television set, a monitor, ect.
Only mainframes could allow playing a few games.
Ralph worked at Loral a TV company his chief engineer, Sam lack off asked him to build the best television set in the world. This was an easy task for Ralph and he wanted to add a new concept playing games on a televison set how ever in 1951 his boss did not understand. In September 1966, Ralph came back to his 1951 idea of playing games on TV sets and started building the first video games prototypes.
The first playable video game was a chase game two squares chasing each other.
After several demonstrations to TV agreement in 1971 and the first video game system was released in May 1972; Odyssey. The history of pong games and derivates just started, would spread all over the globe, and die in the early 1980s.

In the USA, it started in May 1972 with the Magnavox odysses (first home video game) and Atari in November 1972 (their first pong arcade game).

In Europe, video games appeared in homes 1974. The early and fragile European market was formed of a few companies selling cheap systems made of discrete components. A whole industry was launched and hundreds of manufacturers released their own line of pong video games all over the world.