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Video game crash of 1977 facts for kids

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The video game crash of 1977 (also known as 1977 video game crash or the forgotten video game crash) is one of the first times the video game industry "crashed". This event is mostly attributed to Pong-clone home video game consoles, and such. Many video game companies went broke in this crash because they had to make their game consoles cheaper due to the high number of concurrent products. It is followed by the video game crash of 1983.

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  • Ralph Baer's Brown Box prototype

    The "Brown Box" prototype is the forerunner of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial home video game console.

  • Pong

    Many consoles in the first generation were clones of or styled similarly to the arcade version of Pong (above).

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