What is National Video Games Day?

All the ways we enjoy a good video game challenge on September 12th is honored on National Video Games Day.

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This day is a holiday in the United States, video game players from around the world are enjoying this day with a slew of excitement. Video games have been a blend of art form and industry from their very early days.

Walter Day and the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard in Ottumwa, Iowa, established the United States National Video Game Team on July 25, 1983. Their early games featured interactive electronic devices with various display sizes. In 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann, Jr., and Estle Ray Mann filed the first patent for an interactive electronic device. It was branded the "Cathode ray tube amusement Device" and was named "Cathode ray tube amusement Device."

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