Video games have been around since the early 1970s. The fist video game was pong a video game based off of ping pong. The first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space by Nutting Associates, was introduced in 1971 which was made in 1972, Atari introduced Pong to the arcades. But since then games have gotten very popular online and offline. For example Zelda, Halo, and Mario are one of the many popular games out there.