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Who Invented the Video Game?
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Ralph Baer is sometimes credited as the inventor of the video game for PONG in 1972, but William Higinbotham created a similar game in 1958 without patenting the technology. Previous video entertainment devices existed, but they do not receive as much attention.Ask.com Answer for: who invented the video game
There are numerous debates over who created the first video game, with the answer depending largely on how video games are defined.
Willy Higginbotham's Tennis for Two is considered by many to be the first real video game, but Ralph Baer came up with the idea of playing games on TV sets in 1951.
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Ralph Baer who made television sets started thinking it would be fun to be able to play games on the T.V, this was in 1951. Fifteen years later in 1966 he was playing the first video
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Deciding when the first video game was invented depends on the definition of video game. The game closest to what we consider video games today was Tennis for Two, created in 1958.
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The first video game is made by Thomas Goldsmith & Estle Ray Mann on a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) on 14th December 1948.It was a Missile Game inspired by Radar Displays used in World
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Video games were invented in 1958 by William Higinbotham, a nuclear physicist. Nolan Bushnell, who created Pong in 1975, is often erroneously attributed the honor.
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