While many of the high-technology breakthroughs in electronics have been focused on advances in the fields of science and business, the video game industry has also grown rapidly, due to sophisticated electronic devices.

The concept of video games had its beginnings on September 1, 1966, with Ralph Baer, a consumer products engineer at Sanders, a defense contracting firm located in Nashua, New Hampshire. While sitting in a New York bus terminal, Baer thought of the sixty million television sets in the United States and struck on the idea that games using the sets could be a lucrative proposition. He immediately set to work developing a game in his spare time, and three months later produced a basic game similar in which a spot chasing another around the screen. After showing his prototypes for other games to Sanders executives, Baer and two other engineers, William T. Rusch and William...