So what was actually the first video game ever? And I mean a real interactive ones
For what we know it is a game called Tennis for Two, made by a scientist and physicist named William Highinbotham.
He made this game for a laboratory where he worked to entertain the visitors there on a public visitors day.
He himself never felt it was something special so he didn’t even patented the idea.
This game was shown to the public in 1958 and so it predates many of the games we know these days.
As a base for the game he used his knowledge from a method to calculate rocket tracks and directions. And he put that knowledge in the game to program it.
A controler was made out of aluminum and even when the ball was hit the system made a sound.
For the idea he used about 2 hours and 3 weeks of programming the whole thing.
One year after, they shown the same game again on the visitors day but this time improved with different difficulty and bigger screen.
Then it got dismantled and forgotten until they build it again in 1997 which wasn’t easy to find all the components needed to reproduce it. So due to the fact not many people played it and got little attention the influence had been very little on the future games.
But even so if you thought games were a things started in the early 70’s you’re not entirely wrong since that was when it became public available but the actual first was at least a decade earlier, and even before this Tennis for Two game there were visual things on screen but they were less interactive.
So when asked and searching for it, the earliest real video game started as a visitors day show-off in a laboratory by a scientist,
Compared that to today and the whole game industry came a long way.
From non profit, not caring about importance to multi billion profit industry.
Did you ever had the chance to play this game?
See you on the next article.And soon my first review will come online too.
Take care and thank you so much for reading.
Bye bye.
Maurice
