Video games were introduced as a commercial entertainment medium in 1971, becoming the bas

Russell, Witanen, and Graetz wanted to create a program that would test and tax the new computer's capabilities and drew on their love of science fiction in deciding to make a game involving spaceships. Russell was primarily responsible for the design of the game, which was finished in 1962. Called

The video game industry as it exists today primarily sprang from two independent sources. The first of these was the coin-operated amusement business that began in the late nineteenth century at amusement parks, boardwalks, bars, and bowling alleys and consisted of mechanical contraptions operated by patrons who inserted coins to make the machines work. Starting in 1948, the jukebox became the most profitable and important coin-operated amusement device, but the most important game was pinball.