Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first two-player TV game competition between two Sanders Associates engineers, Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison, on the early prototypical game known as "Bucket Filling Game."
Benj Edwards of Vintage Computing has posted a brilliant historical recap of the events that led to the development of Baer and Harrison's television game projects, ultimately leading to the "Brown Box" and Magnavox's Odyssey videogame system.
While other early videogame prototypes (such as Space War) pre-date this historic accomplishment, as Edwards points out, Baer's project was the first device built with home television use in mind. There are some great stories within. Don't miss it as well as Edwards' recent interview with Bill Harrison.
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