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that the first commercially successful video game an Atari Pong cabinet at Andy Capp s Tavern in Sunnyvale California in 1972 got a complait for beeing broken when it was jammed out of order with quarters due to its unexpected popularity

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Fun Fact: that the first commercially successful video game – an Atari Pong cabinet at Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale California in 1972 – got a complait for beeing “broken” when it was jammed out of order with quarters due to its unexpected popularity

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