10 Most Important Video Games In History

10. Pong

Alright, we all knew this game would be on the list, so let's get right to it.

Pong for the Atari is one of the first video games ever. Released in 1972, it was just a table tennis simulator, but the idea of being able to plug something into your TV and being able to personally control it was a brand new experience. It was mind-blowing, a complete game changer, and it was just two moving bars, a round speck, a dotted line, and a score at the top.

Pong was incredibly commercially successful, spawning a bunch of sequels and incredibly similar games. Pong made Atari and others realize that hey, this video game thing could actually work. Eventually, they decided to create things different from Pong, and the rest is history.

Eventually, Pong was entered into the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. to be properly recognized as the father of all video games.