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It wasnât Bushnell himself who created the program for Atari, but a new hire by the name of Al Alcorn, who had worked at Apex alongside Atariâs founders as a junior engineer and had never so much as seen a video game until Bushnell showed him Computer Space. Pong was the first game program he ever created.
If I hadn't done it, someone would've done something equally exciting if not better in the next six months. It was in 1962 when a young computer programmer from MIT, Steve Russell (fueled with inspiration from the writings of E. E. Doc Smith*), created the first computer video game.