Origins

The origin of video games lies in the early cathode ray-tube, a vacuum tube, missile defense systems in the late 1940s. These programs were later turned into simple games during the 1950s. During the late 1950s and through the 1960s, more computers were made. The first commercially viable videogame was Computer Space. Computer Space is a video arcade game released in November 1971 by Nutting Associates. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, who would both later found Atari. Most of the early computer games were on university mainframe computers in the United States and were developed by people as a hobby.

The first home 'console' system was developed by Ralph Baer and his associates. Development began in 1966 and a working prototype was completed by 1968 (called the "Brown Box").

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