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Casinos?

Blackjack, roulette, craps, slot machines, poker, and many other games have long been used for gambling.

Also sports betting has been a thing for nearly all of human civilization.

All of those I would say are gambling from the very beginning.

Computer Games used to have nothing whatsoever to do with Gambling, until about 2010 its seems (going from the other comments in this thread).

Atari blackjack was released in 1977…

I remember Texas Hold’em being a thing on the early days of the internet as well.

Gambling video games have been around a long time. I see this as just another moral panic not unlike the “Doom causes school shootings” narrative.