First known video game: a very simple tennis game (Tennis for Two) much like Pong developed by Physicist William Higinbotham in 1958
Play the original Spacewar video game! Click the PDP-1 image above!
Spacewar was one of the original video games! Developed circa 1962 and run on a DEC PDP-1 mainframe computer.
Computer Space was the World's first commercial video game in 1971. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney of Syzygy Engineering for Nutting Associates.
Later Syzygy Engineering incorporated as Atari and released the historically famous Pong in 1972.
In May of 1980 Pacman was released in Japan and in October of 1980 it came to the United States becoming one of the most successful video games in history!