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To: Ilaine who wrote (85333)	12/30/2011 9:03:33 PM
From: arun gera	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217739

The first video game was inspired by the military technology of the day... U.S. Patent 2,455,992 , granted to Goldsmith and Estle Ray Mann in 1948, describes what may be the world's first cathode ray tube based game and patent, and was inspired by the radar displays used in World War II. [10] Goldsmith and Mann were granted their patented in 1949 one year after they filed for it making it the first ever patent for an electronic game. Entitled "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the patent describes a game in which a player controls the CRT's electron gun much like an Etch A Sketch. The beam from the gun is focused at a single point on the screen to form a dot representing a missile, and the player tries to control the dot to hit paper targets put on the screen, with all hits detected mechanically. By connecting a cathode ray tube to an oscilloscope and devising knobs that controlled the angle and trajectory of the light traces displayed on the oscilloscope, they were able to invent a missile game that, when using screen overlays, created the effect of firing missiles at various targets. [11] To make the game more challenging, its circuits can alter the player's ability to aim the dot. Unfortunately, due to the equipment costs and various circumstances, the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device was never released to the marketplace. Only handmade prototypes were ever created. [12]>