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INVENTIONS
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Tony Fadell
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William Higinbotham
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Philippe Kahn
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Seymour Papert
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Detailed explanation-1: -In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house.
Detailed explanation-2: -Higinbotham, who in 1958 invented the first interactive analog computer game, Tennis for Two.” Tennis for Two is considered under some definitions to be the first video game.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1947, Higinbotham took a position at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked until his retirement in 1984. In 1958, as Head of the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven, he created a computer game called Tennis for Two for the laboratory’s annual exposition.