A History of Video Games: Part 1 - 1950's - 1970's

Video games are funny aren't they? We've gone through generations without technology, just passing the time doing chores or playing outside, but now we have so many things we can do and so many different gaming consoles and games to play, hard to imagine passing the time without a phone game or something to play in today's society. It's strange, we play them not really gaining anything earning achievements that don't really do anything apart from show how much time you've spent trying to 100% it, and it all started in the 1950's with OXO, not pong which many people are lead to believe.
OXO was a game invented in 1952 by Alexander Douglas at the University of Cambridge to study the interactions between humans and computers. It was an electronic version of the popular game tic-tac-toe. This was a huge deal in the world of technology considering the first computer was the size of a room. Even though this game was invented as more of a study, it lead to other games being made for entertainment reasons. Tennis for two was created in 1958 by William Higinbotham, two people could play this electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer. So I suppose you could say that this was the first proper video game as it was played for entertainment purposes. However! In 1962 Spacewar! was created, now this was really impressive because with Tennis for Two, it's based on something that you could go outside and play, pretty basic right? But with Spacewar! it's obviously based in space and considering it was one of the first video game, it's pretty impressive. So within 10 years, things are starting to get pretty interesting.

(Spacewar! 1962)