The first video game was invented in upstate New York (Brookfield National Lab, Upton NY) in 1958 by physicist Dr William Higinbotham. Not a redneck.
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at October 22, 2021 5:12 AM MDT
Technically not a video game, as it consisted of an oscilloscope connected to a CRT and the targets were physically overlaid on the screen. Video operates on a very different principle.
No it's like claiming that Otto Lilienthal did not invent the airplane - because he didn't. Goldsmith's device didn't have a television per se, no tape or recording unit, and the device required visual display parts that were NOT integrated with the screen. Higinbotham may or may not have known of Goldsmith's device, it's certain that he didn't use it (the Wrights did build on Lilienthal's work with gliders, as he in turn had developed on that of Lawrence Hargrave, to produce the first powered airplane).
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at October 22, 2021 6:12 AM MDT
The target was physically placed on TOP of the screen, not part of the display. The NIMROD and X-O analog computers aren't considered to be video games either, but for different reasons. https://www.bnl.gov/about/history/firstvideo.php
Technically, the first true "video" game (pixels controlled by a raster pattern, the definition of a video signal) was developed in the late 1960s by German-American Ralph Baer in New Hampshire (again, not a redneck). https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/the-father-of-the-video-game-the-ralph-baer-prototypes-and-electronic-games/biography
This post was edited by Slartibartfast at October 22, 2021 6:45 PM MDT
Most basic definition of a video game is an interactive electronic game with a screen.
My example from 1948 fits this description.
Now it you want to require pixels then no it does not.
There is no doubt that without the breakthrough of the interactive game in 1948, we would not have our modern video games today. (People study the new ideas in the patent office all the time for new ideas they can build on)