Fairly sure the first video game was the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device.
Tic Tac Toe was invented in 1952, so thats the first 'modern' game.
"pong" by atari. :D
The first video game system, the Magnavox Odyssey, was invented in 1972.
England
Video games where invented in the year 1958 when the game Tennis For Two was created, arguably the first ever video game.
in 1978The very first video game was created in October 1958, and it was called Tennis for Two.
Johnny Durango made the first educational video game known as JumpStart in 1986.
1989
Pong.
The first computer video game was patented in 1947 and was a "missile target game." The first sport video game, among the first coin-operated games, was Pong in 1972.
First video game was conceived by Thomas T. Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann in 1947.
warren bosch
The first video game, according to wikipedia was pong, and tennis for two. It says its debatable who made the first video game. Of course one early one was pacman! (duhXD!)