Who invented the very 1st video game???

No one really knows exactly for sure who invented the very first video game, but it is believed to have been a man by the name of William Higinbotham. William Higinbotham created a game called Tennis for Two back in 1958 and this game is very similar to the popular Atari game called Pong. He created this game in an oscilloscope to entertain visitors to his lab where he worked as a scientist. Tennis for Two was a two-dimensional, side view of a tennis court which was displayed on an oscilloscope. It had a cathode-ray tube similar to a black and white TV. He was born on October 25, 1910 and passed away on November 10, 1994. So, it is not known for sure if this was the first video game or not, but no other people have come forward claiming that they had invented something earlier than 1958.

The very first idea for an interactive electronic game came in 1951 when Ralph Baer, instructed to build the best TV in the world, had the idea of including a game into the TV. However his superiors didn't like the idea, and so it took another 7 years before the idea would emerge again. In 1958, physicist Willy Higinbotham invented the first Pong-like game on an oscilloscope, to stop visitors to his lab getting bored. However it was in 1961 that most people agree the first true computer game was invented. Steve Russell, a student at MIT, used a Digital PDP-1 to create Spacewar. Though the graphics were extremely primitive, Spacewar inspired Nolan Bushnell to create a version of Spacewar that could be played on a home TV. Creating 'Computer Space', the first home video game was born.