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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.
The earliest video game (or rather, interactive electronic game)  was a missile simulator created on a cathode-ray tube in 1947. The  first home console was the Magnavox Ody â¦ ssey, the production of  which started in 1966.It was released in its final form in 1972.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.