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Before there were video games, there were Electromechanic games.
Produced by such names as Midway and Sega, these crazy contraptions predate the arcade video game cabinets we all know, some existing as early as 1941.
Here's one from Sega called Periscope. IIRC it was one of their first arcade games to be imported into the US, but I could be wrong. The page from the link below says it came out in 1968.
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A page about Periscope
Some images from that page:
I am enthralled with how these games work