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.
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 Odyâ¦ssey, the production of  which started in 1966. It was released in its final form in 1972.   That would depend on your definition of the console. WAaaaaaay back  in the late 70s there were PONG type games that were the first.  These gaming devices hooked up to your TV's Ariel antenna input and  just had two dial type controllers on a little box.   But, the first gaming console that I remember having a large  library of cartridge games was the ATARI 2600.