Sorry, we are talking about 2 different things here.  One was the
     first home video game (Pong) and the other was (perhaps) the first
     arcade video game.  Space war was a vector based game (I think), like
     Battlezone and Asteroids, and as such required hardware that just
     didn't exist for less than tens of thousands of dollars at the time.

     Consider this a vote for Pong as the first video game.


     CIAO - Martin.


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Date:    5/31/98 1:41 PM


>For those who may not know,
>PONG was the very first video game.


BZZZT..

The first commercial video game was "space war".
It didn't catch on.  It had a sculpted fibreglass shell
The game was two "spaceships" shooting at each
other, and the sun could have gravity set to normal,
none, and reverse.

Pong was #2