The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar
by PaulHoule on 3/26/2026, 9:22:32 PM
https://lithub.com/the-very-first-video-game-was-just-a-box-in-the-corner-of-a-bar/
Comments
by: shever73
For some irrational reason this article annoyed me. It came across arrogant with an attempt at being high-brow, and included too much fluff. Describing the founders as "foundering figures" was amusing - I don't know if the image of taking on water and sinking was the author's intent, but I think I've just become guilty of the same thing I've accused the article of.
3/30/2026, 11:36:13 AM
by: voidUpdate
> "A revolution was televised in 1972"<p>Well Tennis for Two was created in 1958 so "the first video game" seems like a stretch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two</a>
3/30/2026, 9:56:50 AM
by: teddyh
Ahoy did a <i>comprehensive</i> video about it: <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc</a>>, and a video is a more appropriate medium for discussing and demonstrating video games.
3/30/2026, 2:19:51 PM
by: perfobotto
So difficult to read ..
3/30/2026, 2:18:38 PM
by: empressplay
> Bushnell based the game's concept on an electronic ping-pong game included on the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console; in response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement.<p>Yeah, not first video game.
3/30/2026, 3:02:58 PM
by: anthk
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text-based_computer_games" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text-based_computer_ga...</a><p>Star Trek itself, which I own several ports, it's from 1971.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(1971_video_game)</a><p>First computer games predate commercial releases of Pong.<p>Most of the console isolated journalists have no idea of 60 and 70's computers at all.
3/30/2026, 12:35:16 PM
by: egiboy
Brings up a ‘Do you want to download “sync” on “lithub.com” and “dsp-service.admatic.de”?’ dialog on my iPad.<p>Hard pass.
3/30/2026, 1:36:29 PM
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3/30/2026, 9:58:22 AM
by: riverforest
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3/30/2026, 2:36:43 PM