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1951
Ralph Baer, a 29 year old tv engineer at the Loral tv company, gets the task to build the "best television set of the world" from his chief engineer Sam Lackoff. Baer has the idea to add an electronic game to the tv-set that would be displayed via the tv screen but Sam Lackoff does not realize the innovative potential of the idea and turns it down. Yet this moment should be considered the birth of the video game!
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1952
At the university of Cambridge, U.K., A.S. Douglas programs a tic-tac-toe game for the university's EDSAC vacuum-tube computer to illustrate his thesis on the human-computer interaction. This is the very first graphical computer game known to exist.
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1958
At the Brookhaven National Laboratories Willy Higginbotham programs a simple tennis game for the local analog Donner computer. He calls it "Tennis for two". The game is displayed via an oscilloscope.
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