People around the world spend more than $90 billion a year on video games — not bad for an industry that's only a few decades old. Take our quiz to see how much you know about the consoles and cartridges that started it all.

The NES was so popular that it could be found in almost a third of all American homes just a few years after it was released in 1985.

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