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Gaming

This Video Game Was Made In The 1940′s

Kelly Hodgkins May 24, 2011 3:04 PM

Do you see that retro-looking device above? That’s a cathode ray tube amusement device, one of the one of the first interactive video games ever made. You can tell by the circular green display that this missile simulator game was inspired by the radar displays of World War II. It was created and patented by Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann in the late 1940′s.

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