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jan 1, 1958 - First Generation of Video Games

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In 1958, William Higinbotham, one of the members of the team that founded the Nuclear Bomb, created the first video game, Tennis for Two. He made Tennis for Two on an oscilloscope and analog computer for demonstration at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. This would start the first generation of video games.

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jan 1, 1958
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~ 67 years ago