Possibly the earliest video game – from 1917

[miles]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/n8q9d7/possibly_the_earliest_video_game_from_1917/

[PostOnce]

Wow! That's no cheap carnival game, look at the time and effort they put into building it!

I had to go find more info about it.

More and better pictures of the actual game here: https://necsus-ejms.org/interactive-media-and-imperial-subje...

patent here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US1207411

[djmips]

Pretty cool but not a 'video game.' If we were to consider it a video game then we'd have to consider all the electromechanical games as well.