| When asked about the very first video game | | | | space ship and would fire missiles at flying |
| ever released most experts will tell you that it | | | | saucers. Computer Space's technology was very |
| was Pong, the famous table tennis inspired video | | | | primitive - no microprocessor and no modern |
| game released in 1972 by Atari Inc. But Pong | | | | memory architecture, the entire minimalistic |
| wasn't the first one, as a company called Nutting | | | | computer was made of only 74 logic circuits using |
| Associates had already released their Computer | | | | diode arrays as memory. But it came in an |
| Space game in 1971. | | | | outstanding futuristic cabinet, which was available |
| Computer Space was created by Nolan Bushnell | | | | in various colors. |
| and Ted Dabne, who later founded Atari. The | | | | While the Computer Space game was quite |
| gaming idea was based on Spacewar! (see below), | | | | successful on college campuses, it didn't perform |
| but the really revolutionary concept was to | | | | well in bars. It was probably too complicated back |
| create a machine specifically for a game (instead | | | | then, as people had never seen such a kind of |
| of programming a game for an existing | | | | game before. Pong, which was a huge success |
| hardware). The classic arcade game had been | | | | only shortly after, was much more easy to play |
| invented. | | | | and to understand. |
| The game was quite simple, you had to control a | | | | |