While it's virtually impossible to pin down the exact time when PC gaming was born, 2old2play attempts to trace the medium's genealogy. From the article: "Broadly defined, early computer games date back to primitive missile simulators (circa 1947) and Tic-Tac-Toe games on very early computers with analog electronics. These computers were essentially glorified calculators with a bit of storage (in some cases, 'storage' meant the position of a physical relay as big as your fist, or the on/off condition of a vacuum tube)."Though some 9 years from the article's findings, many credit the invention of video games in general (albeit on a mainframe and not a PC) to William Higinbotham with his 1958 invention of Tennis For Two.
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