Figures who invented or commercially pioneered video game technology and the interactive-entertainment industry it created. Belongs here: inventors of foundational video game hardware and software and the entrepreneurs who first built the video game industry around them. Does not belong here: figures whose pioneering work is in another medium's technology, or media executives whose companies are not built around interactive game technology, grouped under industrialists, publishers and executives.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: History of video games, Early history sectionQuote, Wikipedia: History of video games, Early history section
Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display.
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