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# History of the video games

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The History of the video games is known to begin with the game Pong, released on the first console of the manufacturer Atari. In fact, some ideas of video games can be found before.

## [edit] First ideas of video games

In the 50s, when the first computers begins to be produced, three persons have some ideas who create the bases of actual video games.

In 1951, Ralph Baer, an american engineer of Loral Electronics, trying to create "the best television", propose to add a gaming module, but his employer disapprove his idea. Even if his idea have never been made, he is the first man to have the idea of video games.

Later, in 1952, A.S Douglas, of the Cambridge University on the United Kingdom is the first person who realize a video game on a computer in order to illustrate his speech. The game, called OXO, was a tic-tac-toe and one of the players was the computer.

In 1953, Willy Higinbotham make a game called Tennis for two to entertain the visitors of the National Laboratory of Brookhaven.

Finally, these examples are the bases of the actual video games : the console is connected on a TV, there is controllers, and one of the player is the computer.

## [edit] Video games in the 60s

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