{"id":296547,"date":"2025-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=349770"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:18:39","slug":"the-first-video-game-to-appear-in-a-movie-did-so-even-before-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-first-video-game-to-appear-in-a-movie-did-so-even-before-pong\/","title":{"rendered":"The first video game to appear in a movie did so even before Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now we all know what video games are and their possibilities. Even in the days of Tron<\/a>, back in 1982, it was already possible to sense that there was much more than what could be seen on screen at that time, just before the launch of the NES. At that time, Steven Lisberger imagined a world of virtual reality where the innocence of the past mixed with the modernity of today, and even today many believe that this was the first time a video game appeared on the big screen. But far from it: this time travel goes back even before the very Pong itself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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To see the first real video game<\/a> with a name and surname in a movie, we have to go back to 1973. Pong was one year old, but it was not the one that had the honor of appearing in Soylent Green (more commonly known as When the Destiny Catches Us). It was Computer Space, the first arcade game in history launched in 1971<\/strong>, which also holds another record: the first commercially available video game. Quite something.<\/p>\n\n\n

Computer Space exceeded all expectations and opened a new path filled with dreams for thousands and thousands of new players… Although in reality, its creators, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, were much more prosaic: they just wanted a version that worked with coins from SpaceWar!<\/a><\/strong>, the game from 1962 that was modified across American universities by a hacking team of hundreds of programmers who thus learned their profession.<\/p>\n\n\n

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