first game ever By sophiie_kate Sep 15, 1958 first game ever made Table Tennis Sep 15, 1961 second game ever made Spacewar Sep 15, 1967 third and fourth video games ever made a chase game and a tennis game Sep 15, 1971 fifth video game computer space Sep 15, 1972 sixth video game atari Sep 15, 1975 first computer game gunfight Sep 15, 1978 first arcade game to keep high scores space invaders Sep 15, 1979 the first game to allow high scorers to enter three character initials to be stored in the machine asteroids Sep 15, 1980 pac-man Sep 15, 1980 first 3d game battlezone Sep 15, 1985 tetris is invented