The first home video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, and the first arcade video games were Computer Space and Pong.

Sep 7, 2025 · Although there are other earlier examples of computer games, most consider the first true computer video game or digital game to be "Spacewar!". This game was programmed …

Nov 25, 2020 · Created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 by a group of students led by Steve Russell, the game was so popular that it spread around the world to …

In 1967, assisted by Sanders technician Bob Tremblay, Baer created the first of several video game test units. Called TVG#1 or TV Game Unit #1, the device, when used with an alignment …

Long ago, before joysticks and hyper-realistic graphics, the earliest video games flickered to life on oscilloscopes and room-sized computers. These digital pioneers laid the foundation for …

Sep 1, 2017 · In 1967, developers at Sanders Associates, Inc., led by Ralph Baer, invented a prototype multiplayer, multi-program video game system that could be played on a television. …

Apr 30, 2025 · Steve Russell invented Spacewar in 1962, making it one of the first computer games ever made. Spacewar was played on the PDP-1 computer and involved two players …

Oct 8, 2025 · In 1962, Steve "Slug" Russell, a young computer programmer out of Dartmouth led a team of programmers at MIT, who created the first computer video game, "SpaceWar!" The …

Apr 21, 2025 · The first ever PC game is widely considered to be OXO, a tic-tac-toe simulator created in 1952 by A.S. Douglas, a professor at Cambridge University, where the player plays …

A game called OXO (Noughts and Crosses) was a tic-tac-toe computer game made for the EDSAC computer at Cambridge in 1952. It was the first known (graphical) game to run on a …