{"id":1479,"date":"2021-05-13T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T06:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-70s-ranked\/"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T06:43:53","slug":"the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-70s-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-70s-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 greatest video games of the 70s \u2013 ranked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the simplicity of Pong\u2019s two bats and a ball to Space Invaders\u2019 advancing ranks of aliens, the 70s saw the rise of a phenomenon that mesmerised the world<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. Pong (1972, Atari)<br \/><\/strong>It wasn\u2019t the first video game; it wasn\u2019t even the first ping-pong game \u2013 Table Tennis on the Magnavox Odyssey got there earlier. Pong was, however, the game that kickstarted the video arcade and home console industries, the profitability of its hardware and the simplicity of the gameplay \u2013 just two bats, a ball and a scoring system \u2013 ensuring its huge success and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/21\/4248372\/watch-pong-played-on-side-of-philadelphia-cira-centre\">iconic afterlife<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2021\/may\/13\/15-greatest-video-games-of-the-70s-ranked\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/300bf9838237b2e329746212a3b5f61e72b45173\/121_0_3651_2192\/master\/3651.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f851bbacd13f706fe4b83312b279aeae\" title=\"The 15 greatest video games of the 70s \u2013 ranked!\" \/>From the simplicity of Pong\u2019s two bats and a ball to Space Invaders\u2019 advancing ranks of aliens, the 70s saw the rise of a phenomenon that mesmerised the world<br \/>\n15. Pong (1972, Atari)It wasn\u2019t the first video game; it wasn\u2019t even the first ping-pong game \u2013 Table Tennis on the Magnavox Odyssey got there earlier. Pong was, however, the game that kickstarted the video arcade and home console industries, the profitability of its hardware and the simplicity of the gameplay \u2013 just two bats, a ball and a scoring system \u2013 ensuring its huge success and iconic afterlife. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the simplicity of Pong\u2019s two bats and a ball to Space Invaders\u2019 advancing ranks of aliens, the 70s saw the rise of a phenomenon that mesmerised the world 15. Pong (1972, Atari)It wasn\u2019t the first video game; it wasn\u2019t even the first ping-pong game \u2013 Table Tennis on the Magnavox Odyssey got there earlier. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/13\/the-15-greatest-video-games-of-the-70s-ranked\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 15 greatest video games of the 70s \u2013 ranked!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}