who invented the first computer game, and what was the name
In, 1958,  William Higinbotham created the first video game ever. His game, called Tennis for Two, was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. Then in 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game. In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase..