The video games that my grandkids play are so sophisticated that they’re hard to grasp for one who grew up on card games like whist ... First computer game invented in 1958 Share this ...

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 . // Related Stories ...

The first computer game, Spacewar, was invented by an MIT grad student. Yes, even in the 1960s, students were wasting timeplaying games. arbyreed/ Wikimedia Commons. 1963: Touch-Tone Telephone.