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Instance of a video clip video game in the category first-person shooter
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The first computer game were simple expansions of digital video games using video-like output from large room-size computer systems in the 1950s and 1960s, while the first computer game available to customers appeared in 1971 through the launch of the game video game Computer system Space, complied with the next year by Pong, and with the first home console the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Today, computer game development requires numerous abilities to bring a video game to market, consisting of developers, authors, suppliers, sellers, console and various other third-party manufacturers, and various other functions.

Since the 2010s, the industrial importance of the computer game industry has been enhancing. The arising Oriental markets and mobile video games on mobile phones particularly are driving the development of the industry. Since 2018, computer game produced sales of US$134.9 billion yearly worldwide,[1] and were the third-largest section in the U.S. entertainment market, behind broadcast and cable television TV.