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First widely availible video game console release
In 1967, Ralph Baer and his colleagues at Sanders Associates, Inc. developed a prototype for the first multiplayer, multiprogram video game system. Since Sanders hoped to license the technology for a commercial venture, Baer understood that the games had to be fun or investors and consumers would not be interested. It labeled itself as "a new dimension for your television." Selling less than 200,000 units, this was seen as a failure.
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