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The First Video Game

  • April 21, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The first video game was created in 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham, but he didn’t consider the idea worth patenting. His “Tennis for Two” game was built and played on an oscilloscope at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York City.

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