The First Video Game

The First Video Game While it is as far from the eventual commercial videogame systems that come later as a walk in the park is to a walk on the moon, a physicist trying to make the everyday tour of his science laboratory a little more exciting to bored visitors designs what few consider as a precursor videogame system in 1958. Working at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a US thermonuclear research lab in Upton, New York, William A. Higinbotham notices that people tending the annual autumn open houses, which argon held to show the public how safe the work going on there is, are bored with the displays of simple photographs and static equipment.

Educated at Cornell University as a physics graduate, Higinbotham had come to BNL from Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project, and had actually been witness to the scratch line detonation of the atomic bomb. A chain-smoking, fun-loving character and self-confessed pinball player, he wants to develop an open house exhibit at BNL that will entertain people as they learn. ...If you want to set a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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