Author Archives: Sue R. Scott

Tips for video gaming available online

Most people don’t realize it, but the first video game wasn’t played on a television screen or computer console; instead it was fired up on a cathode ray device. The player, using knobs and buttons, manipulated a cathode ray tube beam in order to fire on simulated airplanes. This simple, two-dimensional example of early video gaming appears to the modern eye to be primitive beyond words, however, in 1947, it was the harbinger of all the video games to come.