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The first computer game that was ever created was probably the game OXO by Alexander Douglas in 1952. It was a version of tic-tac-toe that he wrote for his thesis on human-computer interaction. But most people consider the real first interactive computer game to be Tennis for Two, developed in 1958 by nuclear physicist William Higginbotham for visitors of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. His game was meant to instruct players about the effects of gravity. Of course, these early developers never realized the potential of games, partly because of the huge amount of equipment that was required.