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Originally posted by AudioBoxer
Does anyone know what the 1st game ever was?
What was the first system?
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Well, it's a tough one but these are the first two ever games:
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1958
In an effort to keep visitors to the Brookhaven National Laboratories in New York from being bored, physicist Willy Higinbotham invents an interactive table-tennis-like game that is displayed on an oscilloscope. He improves on his invention a year later by displaying it on a 15-inch monitor. Believing that he hasn't invented anything, Higinbotham doesn't patent the device.
1961
Spacewar.
MIT student Steve Russell creates Spacewar, the first interactive computer game, on a Digital PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) minicomputer. Limited by the computer technology of the time, Spacewar used new teletype terminals with CRT screens to display the graphics.
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The first home video game system was released in 1972, and was called the Oddessy and was manufactured by Magnavox.
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