Home gaming experienced a boom in the 1970s and early 1980s, driven by the popular Atari television gaming console. The war-themed Atari games Missile Command and Battlezone first appeared in arcades in 1979 and 1980 and were later released for the Atari home system.

Atari 2600 Game Console
Canadian Museum of History 2009.71.2264.2

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