An agreed-upon format for transmitting data between two devices. The protocol determines the following: data compression method, if any. how the receiving device will indicate that it has received a message.
The coin-operated video game was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, the later founders of Atari. A year later in 1972 the Magnavox Odyssey, created by Ralph H. Baer, became the first commercially sold video game console.K, I don't know what idiot said the N64 was the first console and frankly I don't care. Now, then. The first console ever, was also the first videogame ever. The Tennis for â¦ Two (not to be confused with Pong) was released in 1958 by William Higinbotham. The game was actually made from radar equipment.
October 1958: Physicist Invents First Video Game. In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. Higinbotham was born on October 25, 1910 in Bridgeport, CT and grew up in Caledonia, NY.