I do remember when we bought “Pong” for my kids to play on one of our old television sets, but that was more than 15 years after Willy Higinbotham developed the first computer game.

You’d think the development of what is likely the first computerized driving simulator with actual computer-generated visuals would be a big deal. An achievement like that would have set the ...

The first game invented specifically for the computer appeared in early 1962. A new $120,000 computer had just arrived at MIT that was faster and easier to use than the handful of other hulking ...

They were primarily games with elementary rules like tic-tac-toe and chess. However, Tennis For Two was undoubtedly the first computer game with an actual physics model.

1962: Spacewar The first computer game, Spacewar, was invented by an MIT grad student. Yes, even in the 1960s, students were wasting timeplaying games.