A History of the Computer Game

Nobody knows for sure, but when the world's first computer, ENIAC, was unveiled in 1946, an engineer might have rubbed his chin and said “Hmm . . . I wonder how this thing would do in gaming?”

Gaming has been a natural function of computers since the early days. In 1958, William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory created a game that was displayed on an oscilloscope, which had a display similar to a TV screen. The game was tennis, but viewed from courtside, as opposed to Pong's overhead view.

Games continued to be developed, and, as a matter of fact, drove much development in computers themselves.

Today's FamilyFirst site is a concise history of computer gaming. It was apparently written as a thesis by the site's owner, Jesper Juul, game developer.

It's short on graphics, but long on info, as it covers gaming from 1962 to its publishing date, probably about 1995.

It's a bit of a different type of site than you may be accustomed to, but read it and you'll learn some cool history of computer gaming.

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