What is the oldest video game in the history of video games?

Answer 1

Many people believe that Pong is the first video game, but it's not. Pong started the home video game console for Atari, but it is not the first video game to be invented.

Tennis for Two is unofficially considered the first video game to be invented. It's the predecessor to Pong. But instead of a top-down perspective, Tennis for Two had a side view. I think in an interview on Icons, Ralph Bauer and Nolan Bushnell said that they got the idea for Pong from Tennis for Two.

Answer 2

Actually, it was NOT Pong. OXO, a tic-tac-toe game programmed for an EDSAC computer in 1952, is the earliest known graphical game of any kind to run on a computer, though it is not universally credited as being the first "video game" ever made. Some give it that credit, other reserve the credit for a game called "Tennis for Two," programmed by William Higinbotham to be played on an oscilloscope in 1958. Neither one was Pong (though Tennis for Two was also a ball-and-paddle game like Pong, it played very differently).

Now, if you are asking about the first video game to be mass-produced and sold commercially, the honor for that distinction STILL doesn't go to Pong, but to a game called "Computer Space" which was released in 1971. It's a space-shooting game, derived from an earlier mainframe computer game called "Space War" that was first programmed at MIT in 1962. Computer Space was not a commercial success because it was too complex for most people, so its programmers went back to the drawing board and (finally!) produced Pong, which was much easier to play. Pong was a runaway success when it came out in 1972, and basically launched what would soon become a rapidly growing arcade game industry.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Pong came first. Pac man was an arcade game not really for TV. It was quite a while before pac man came out as a video game. But Atari put out a sort of console that had several games in it. You hooked it to your TV. One of the games was a pin ball game. That was fantastic!!!! For its time.

The console game came out in about 1977. My son was born in Nov. 78. I would sit with the console on my fat tummy and the noise from the pinball game would make him kick.

By the way for you youngsters before video games and arcade games we played pinball machines. You could get unlimited free replays on those old pinball machines!

Answer 5

Altari. Pong? Or Mario saving the princess from Donkey Kong

Answer 6

Probably Pong

Answer 7

okay everyone says it is pong made by atari but this is not true there was a console that had a name that started with a c that came out about a year and a half or so b4 the atari and it had pong

Answer 8

i'm sick of people who think that it's pong.

the first credited video game was tennis - made in 1958, some 18 years before pong

Answer 9

It was an Atari game called Pong.

Answer 10

Noughts And Crosses - The oldest graphical computer game


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