Thread by @fakehistoryhunt

Alexa, did I just correct you?
Tennis for two was NOT the first video game.

Earlier candidates (depending on your definition of video game);
1940: Nimatron
1947: CRT Amusement device
1950: Bertie the Brain
1951: Nimrod
1952: Draughts (AKA checkers)
Sheep & Gates
OXO

https://twitter.com/alexa99/status/1417512044048224256

Here's a wonderful detailed documentary by @xboxahoy on the subject that also mentions the issue regarding defining what a video game is, etc.
(thanks for sharing, sorry, can't find your tweet so don't know your name)
Enjoy;

As a bonus here a little article I did (and will be updating after seeing that documentary) on the first video game, thanks to the world's first silly people who kept making claims about it ;)
fakehistoryhunter.net/2021/05/15/not…

PS if you have Alexa in your home, go ask her what the first video game is and keep asking for a few weeks, let's see if she can learn ;)

PS 2; I've always called them computer games because when I was a kid videos involved big clunky video tapes and video records and I just refused to use the term.
My computer worked on CASSETTE TAPES.

Bonus tweet just for the old people';

"Greetings, Dr. Falken. Do You Want To Play a Game?"

A must-watch showing yet another first computer game, brilliant bit of newsreel;

https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1379632307846459392