It was November of 1971 that Nolan Bushnell , Ted Dabney and Computer Space officially ushered in the era of the video game. Before running off to start Atari, the two men released the world’s first coin-operated arcade cabinet and, indeed, the first commercial video game ever — a full six months before the Odyssey . Computer Space was a relatively simple title in which a player used four buttons to pilot a ship around the screen and do battle with flying saucers
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Computer Space turns 40, video games gear up for mid-life crisis
