The second episode of the OCG History series seeks to answer a very simple question that most people should be able to answer, but can't. What was the first video game?
Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork.
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<a href="https://www.museumofplay.org/about/icheg/video-game-history/timeline">Video Game Timeline - National Museum of Play</a>
<a href="https://www.science20.com/science_20/what_was_first_computer_game-46008">What Was the First Video Game?</a>
<a href="https://pbgames.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/1940-nimatron/">Nimatron</a>
<a href="https://pbgames.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/1941-nim-machine/">Nim Machine</a>
<a href="http://www.goodeveca.net/nimrod/">NIMROD</a>
<a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/gaming/a20129/the-very-first-video-game/">CRT Amusement Device</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_the_Brain">Bertie the Brain</a>
<a href="https://www.bnl.gov/about/history/firstvideo.php">Tennis For Two</a>
<a href="https://www.lifewire.com/oxo-aka-noughts-and-crosses-729624">Noughts and Crosses</a>
<a href="https://www.digitiser2000.com/main-page/the-pre-history-of-video-games-1947-1959">Profiles of Early Games</a>
<a href="https://www.history.com/news/in-1950-alan-turing-created-a-chess-computer-program-that-prefigured-a-i">Turing's Chess Program</a>
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2012/6/26/3119022/alan-turing-60-year-old-chess-program-garry-kasparov">Kasparov vs Turbochamp</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Shannon's_computer_chess_program">Shannon's Chess Program</a>
<a href="https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/the-priesthood-at-play-computer-games-in-the-1950s/">1950s Computer Games</a>
<a href="https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/searching-for-bobby-fisher/">Checkers and Chess</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology#History">Background on MIT</a>
<a href="https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/people-get-ready-theres-a-train-a-coming/">The MIT Computer Club</a>
<a href="https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/ibm700series/impacts/">Blackjack on IBM 700</a>
<a href="https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/08/07/one-two-three-four-i-declare-a-space-war/">Spacewar!</a>
<a href="http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/1863/spacewar-profile-of-a-cultural-earthquake">Cultural Impact of Spacewar!</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/technology/a-long-time-ago-in-a-lab-far-away.html">Profile of Spacewar!</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH0tcv3nEQI&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=659">Video - The Bouncing Ball Demo</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2E9iSQfGdg">Video - Tennis For Two</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHQ4WCU1WQc">Video - The First Video Game</a>

Baer and Bushnell

A podcast series that tells a narrative history of the video game industry.