Dudes, meet Ralph H. Baer - inventor of the video game. Never knew this. This is Pong, on a TV screen, 1969. Sure there had been some electronic games as far back as 1947, but this is perhaps the first video game.

Game actually built in 1967, filmed here in 1969.

Article:

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=0&cId=3159462

All about Ralph H. Baer -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_H._Baer

He's still mucking around aged 89, so if you come across him buy him a beer huh?