Yeah, certainly one of the first, I'd agree with that. First I'd ever heard about it was in the documentary Thumb Candy, at the beginning Steve Russell gives an

Yeah, certainly one of the first, I'd agree with that. First I'd ever heard about it was in the documentary Thumb Candy, at the beginning Steve Russell gives an introduction to Spacewar!, which is quite fun to see: http://youtu.be/UAo4CZTGFQQ http://youtu.be/UAo4CZTGFQQ Digging around, I found even more early examples of computer-based games that appear to have been largely overlooked, I certainly don't remember hearing about them before, seems like the first video games may have emerged in the early 50s (between 1950 to 1951, depending on whether it needed to be on a general purpose computer): https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/ https://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/