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# PAUSE: Meet the great-granddaddy of videogames.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/pause-meet-the-great-granddaddy-of-videogames/
- Published: 2011-05-26T22:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:53:34.000Z
- Description: Now this is retro gaming. This “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device”, invented by Thomas T. Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann in 1947, is one of the earliest examples of a videogame: Described it as a game of skill where a player sits or lies in front of a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) mounted in a closet, the a
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Now *this* is retro gaming. This “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device”, invented by Thomas T. Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann in 1947, is one of the earliest examples of a videogame:

> *Described it as a game of skill where a player sits or lies in front of a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) mounted in a closet, the analog device was inspired by a radar commonly used in the second World War to control missiles. Using knobs to adjust speed and trajectory, a plane was represented by a single point and the scores were assigned by hand!*

–*Lana Polansky*

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