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Thomas T. Goldsmith
He filed a patent for a "cathode ray tube amusement device." His game, which is uses a cathode ray tube hooked to an oscillosocope display, challenges players to fire a gun at a target. -
William Higinbotham
William Higinbotham was the man to invent a video game in the year of 1958. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. -
Steve Russell
Steve was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), creates Spacewar, the first interactive computer game. It runs on a Digital PDP-1 mainframe computer, and the graphics are made up of ASCII text characters.This was the second game that was created after the famous William Higinbotham. -
Ralph Baer
Followed up by Steve german-born television engineer Ralph Baer and his coworkers designed the first video game console that works on a standard television and dub it "Brown Box". They developed a chase game allowing players to control tow squares chasing each other on the screen. A modified toy gun is made and able to distinguish spots of light on the screen. -
Nolan Bushnell And Ted Dabney
They begin their attempt to create an arcade version of Spacewar, calling it Computer Space. It year later Computer Space becomes first video arcade game ever released. 1500 games are distributed. Public consensus is that it is too difficult to play. -
Nolan Bushnell And Al Alcorn
They developed an arcade tennis game. When they tested it in Andy Capps Tavern in Sunnyvale, California, it stops working. Why? Because so many people were playing it that the machine got jammed with quarters.Pong, and arcade legend was born. -
Atari
Atari released a video computer system commonly known as Atari 2600. Featuring a joystick, interchangeable cartridges, games in color, and switches for selecting games and setting difficulty levels, it makes millions of Americans home video gamr players.
