William Higinbotham created the first ever video game, Tennis for Two, in 1958. It was created and displayed so that people would be entertained and it would prove that their science had relevance in today's society. Was displayed on a simple oscilloscope.
Steve Russell and a group of colleagues created Spacewar, the first ever computer video game, in 1962. Despite this huge accomplishment, Russell was modest, saying that someone else would've simply gotten there first if he hadn't.
Ralph Baer created the first video game to be played on a television, Chase, in 1967. Also Baer went on to later create the first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey.
The first arcade game was Computer Space, created by Nolan Bushnell in 1971. Was based off spacewar and was the first game to be widely available to the public, but didn't do all that well since people thought it was too complicated.
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