Who made video games

Who invented video games The very first idea for an interactive electronic game came in 1951 when Ralph Baer, instructed to build the best TV in the world, had the idea of including a game into the TV. However his superiors didn't like the idea, and so it took another 7 years before the idea would emerge again. In 1958, physicist Willy Higinbotham invented the first Pong-like game on an oscilloscope, to stop visitors to his lab getting bored. However it was in 1961 that most people agree the first true computer game was invented. Steve Russell, a student at MIT, used a Digital PDP-1 to create Spacewar. Though the graphics were extremely primitive, Spacewar inspired Nolan Bushnell to create a version of Spacewar that could be played on a home TV. Creating 'Computer Space', the first home video game was born.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />