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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.
As part of the project, Douglas created the first graphical computer game: a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on an EDSAC vacuum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube display. In 1958, William Higinbotham created the first video game ever. His game, titled Tennis for Two, was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!, which was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used an MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game. In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase. Baer, who was then part of Sanders Associates, a military electronics firm, first conceived of his idea in 1951 while working for Loral, a television company.