Homage to William Higinbotham:
Fifty years ago, before either arcades or home video games, visitors waited in line at Brookhaven National Laboratory to play Tennis for Two, an electronic tennis game that is unquestionably a forerunner of the modern video game. Two people played the electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer and used an oscilloscope for a screen. The game’s creator, William Higinbotham, was a physicist who lobbied for nuclear nonproliferation as the first chair of the Federation of American Scientists.
Perhaps. However, 62 years ago there was a video game called Spacewar running at MIT – see http://museum.mit.edu/150/25 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmvb4Hktv7U
My bad – make that 52 years ago.