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A decade later, the arcade game and home video game, more or less as we know them now, were born.
Ralph Baer invents what becomes Magnavox's Odyssey home game system, and Nolan Bushnell uses Spacewar as the basis for "Computer Space" - the first standup arcade game. It was a dud. His second game, Pong, was a huge hit, and put Atari on the map. It also started a series of lawsuits between Atari and Magnavox.

Two legendary computer games also were created at this time: Hunt the Wumpus and Adventure.