Got any funny redneck inventions?

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

No the first interactive video game was invented by  This post was edited by my2cents 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.

It was an interactive electronic game with a screen.  This is the basic definition of a video game. 

To claim it is not the first video is game is like claiming the Wright brothers did not invent the first airplane because it was not a 747 airplane. 

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

It is an interactive electronic game with a screen that detected if the player hit their target. 

That is a video game. 

The target wasn't displayed on the screen, that's the point.

The target was on the screen otherwise the screen could not detect if it was a miss or a hit. 

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

Depends on your definition of video game. 

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)