The first video game was created in 1958 by an American physicist.
Why it is true
The first video game was Tennis for Two, created in 1958 by William Higinbotham, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The game simulated a tennis match on an oscilloscope and was created to entertain visitors to the laboratory.
Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory
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