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There are numerous debates over which game should be considered the '''first video game''', with the answer depending largely on how ]s are defined. The evolution of video games represents a tangled web of several different industries, including ], ], ], and ].

The "video" in "]" traditionally refers to a ] display device.<ref name="Pong Story: Main Page"/> With the popular ] use of the term "video game", the term later came to imply all display types, formats, and platforms.

Historians have also sought to bypass the issue by instead using the more specific "digital games" descriptive.<ref name="Game Innovation Database"></ref> This term leaves out the earlier ] games.

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