1972 in video gaming

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Contents

1 Notable releases
2 References
3 Video game releases
4 Hardware releases

Notable releases[edit | edit source]

The Shooting Gallery, the first light gun peripheral for a video game console, developed by Magnavox and Nintendo, is released.^[1]
November: Atari releases Pong, the first commercially-successful video game.

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Martin Picard, The Foundation of Geemu: A Brief History of Early Japanese video games, International Journal of Computer Game Research, 2013

Video game releases[edit | edit source]

Name	Release Date	Category	Region(s)	Platform(s)
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 1	1972	Video Game	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 10	1972	Video Game	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 12	1972	Video Game	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 2	1972	Bundle	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 3	1972	Bundle	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 4	1972	Bundle	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 5	1972	Bundle	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 6	1972	Bundle	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 7	1972	Video Game	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 8	1972	Video Game	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Magnavox Odyssey Game Card 9	1972	Bundle	North America	Magnavox Odyssey
Pong	1972	Video Game	International	Arcade
Star Trek	October 20, 1972	Video Game	North America	HP 2000C

Hardware releases[edit | edit source]

Name	Release Date	Category	Region(s)
Magnavox Odyssey	1972	Home Console	North America

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