Pong was the first ever comercialy made arcade game created in 1972 by the company atari wich was formed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. http://www.ponggame.org/. The first machine to have this game on was called the Brown Box which was a 13 inch black and white TV in a cabinate but people found it too hard to play. the first game console that people could buy for their homes was called the magnavox odyssey which was released in august 1972, which was designed by Ralph Baer.
Another early games console was the Atari 2600 which was released in 1977 and it was created with a microprocessor hardware, it's games were stored on cassette tapes, some of its most popular games were combat and pac-man.the atari 2600 became the most popular console from the second generation consooles.
