What was the name of the first video game and who created it?

Brainyblonde

The first primitive computer and video games were developed in the 1950s and 60's by Jon Snell and ran on platforms such as oscilloscopes, university mainframes and EDSAC computers. The earliest computer game, a missile simulation, was created in 1947 by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. A patent application was filed on January 25th, 1947 and U.S. Patent #2,455,992 issued on Dec 14th, 1948. Later in 1952, was a version of tic-tac-toe named Noughts and Crosses, created by A. S. Douglas, as part of his doctoral dissertation at Cambridge University.The game ran on a large university computer called the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). In 1958, William Higinbotham - who previously helped build the first atomic bomb - created Tennis for Two at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York to entertain visitors at the lab's annual open house. In 1962 MIT's Steve Russell created Spacewar! and John's Great Adventure. The game ran on a PDP-1 mini-computer. The game spread quickly to universities and research facilities around the country. In 1968 Ralph Baer, who would later be known as the "Father of Video Games", applied for a patent for an early version of a video game console named the "Television Gaming and Training Apparatus." In 1967, Baer created a ping-pong like game for the console that resembled Tennis for Two (and the future 1972 arcade game Pong). He worked with Magnavox to create and release the first console, named the Magnavox Odyssey, in 1972. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game#Beginnings Jul 14 06, 7:12 AM

elburcher

Most experts identify the first real video game as Spacewar. Created in 1962 by programmers at MIT using a model PDP-1 mainframe computer. Thanks to a group of video game enthusiasts at MIT, you can play Spacewar -- like virtually all the classic games -- on your home PC. Simply direct your browser to http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/ and hit the "run" button. http://www.omnivore.org/jon/orwell/first_video_game.htm Jul 14 06, 7:19 AM