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Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Atari 2600 Patent

Game Control Console

Filed August 19th, 1977

Atari’s 2600 wasn’t the first gaming console, but it was the first wildly popular one. And you could make a case that it remains the single most important one of all time. Tragically, this drawing doesn’t show the fake wood-grain paneling that gave the 2600 its incomparably 1970s-ish character.

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