In 1958, Tennis For Two went on exhibition at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. With controllers and an analogue display, it’s regarded as one of the first ever true video games.
Some might think the men who wrote what is credited as the first video game ever, Tennis for Two, might regret not patenting his work. If they did, however, the United States government would have owned that patent. And it’s fascinating to consider the Department of Energy as a founding investor in the multibillion-dollar video gaming industry of present times.