What was the first video game, when and who was it made by?

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Well the first Home Video game system was invented by Ralph Baer Called The Odyssey the first unit of which was Built in 1968.
It was a game similar to Pong (and by similar i mean exactly the same). Ralph Baer eventually sued Atari for infringement or whatever, and won. go figure.
 
Before the era of electronic ping pong, hungry yellow dots, plumbers, mushrooms, and fire-flowers, people waited in line to play video games at roller-skating rinks, arcades, and other hangouts. Fifty years ago, before either arcades or home video games, visitors waited in line at Brookhaven National Laboratory to play “Tennis for Two,” an electronic tennis game that is unquestionably a forerunner of the modern video game.

Tennis for Two was first introduced on October 18, 1958, at one of the Lab’s annual visitors’ days. Two people played the electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer and used an oscilloscope for a screen. The game’s creator, William Higinbotham, was a nuclear physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project and lobbied for nuclear nonproliferation as the first chair of the Federation of American Scientists.
 
Depends on your definition.

There were many "games" created on computer, even before PONG.

There was a tennis game created back in 1954, using an Oscilloscope.
 
I think it was that ping pong game, the one were you use to bounc this bbouncingball back and forth between two pplayers each player had this joy stick with a knob to move a line to deflect the bouncing ball, then after that I think ATARI cane out
 
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