{"id":237,"date":"2023-06-21T11:50:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:50:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:50:21","slug":"who-invented-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Invented Video Games (For Entertainment)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the video game<\/strong>\u00a0is a very common entertainment, hardly anyone knows who its inventor was. At concordant-thought.com, we explain the history of video games, their origin, and many other curiosities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who Invented Video Games<\/strong><\/span>
\nThe video game was conceived in 1958, by a physicist named Willy Higinbotham.<\/span><\/p>\n

When were video games invented?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He was preparing for the annual Brookhaven National Laboratory open day in Upton, Long Island. I wanted to make the occasion more entertaining than a bunch of static displays.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this reason, I thought I could play a simple game with an oscilloscope, a test instrument that emits many wavy lines.<\/span><\/p>\n

He hooked it up to a black-and-white television and made a ball appear bouncing back and forth over a \u201cnet\u201d as if it were a game of tennis. He even made balls that touched the net bounce.<\/span><\/p>\n

The result was a hundred people queuing up to test the game. The following year he switched the game to a bigger screen and offered the options to play on the Moon, with low gravity, or on Jupiter, with high gravity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once again it was a great success. Years later, his children asked him why they had not become millionaires. Bill Higinbotham did not patent his invention because working for the government he thought he would not receive patent rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

First Video Game Ever<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n