Origin of Computer Game Platforms and Technological Developments

Video gaming became fairly popular with the masses round about the early 1970's. Funnily enough though one of the first ever video games to be reported to the public was actually created on an oscilloscope (a type of electronic test instrument that allows one to observe and record varying signals and electrical voltages) in the year 1958, the game was entitled 'Tennis for Two' and was created by a man named William Higinbotham. The game was (as the name can pretty much tell you) for two players and so not only being one of the first video games in history but also the first multiplayer game, to play TFT each player would use an aluminium box controller, this controller being an analog with only one button and was usually hardwired to oscilloscope and each player had to simply hit the ball (represented by a small light with a trail coming from it) onto the other's side of the screen.