††††A computer game is any computer-controlled game in which the computer opposes the human player. Computer games typically make use of fast, animated graphics on a screen and synthesised sound.
In 1956, Stanislaw Ulam and P. Stein produced a computer chess program called MANIAC I, which was the first program to beat a human at a game.
The first commercially successful game was a version of table tennis called 'Pong', invented by Nolan Bushnell in 1972. The popular 'Space Invaders' was not introduced until 1978.
