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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.
In, 1958,  William Higinbotham created the first video game ever. His game, called Tennis for Two, was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. Then in 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a 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..