The begining of Games

The start of it all.

Know one can say for sure who developed the very first videogame as it wasn’t deemed a “videogame” at the time of creation. There consist of three likely candidates however.

The first being a simulation game created in 1948. It was a simple game recreating a missile being fired at a target . However due to limited technology being available at the time and graphics could not be drawn electronically so they had to make do with targets drawn on an overlay. It was created by Thomas T. Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann if you really wanted to know.
Our next candidate is A.S. Douglas who developed OXO in 1952. It was the electronic version of noughts and crosses and was played on a EDSAC, it was developed to prove a thesis on the interaction of humans and computers.
Our last candidate is William Higinbotham who created the game Tennis for two in 1958. The game consisted of a tennis court(hence the title), however it was very simple and showed only a side view of the court. It had two controllers so was probably the first two player game created.

The way I see it is that all of these games were the very first videogame. We have the very first simulation game, the first human versus computer and the first 2 player game. While I’m sure other claims to who invented the first videogame will pop up either way it was going to happen some day and I’m sure glad it did.