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Pacman

---- The first popular true computer came was Space Invaders which came out in 1978, Pacman wasn't released until 1980.

The actual first graphical 'computer game' was a version of tic-tac-toe written in 1952 by A.S. Douglas at the University of Cambridge

William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. His game, called "Tennis for Two," was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use.

In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase.

The first arcade game called Cumputer Space was created in 1971 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The arcade game Pong was created by Nolan Bushnell a year later in 1972. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari Computers that same year. In 1975, Atari re-released Pong as a home video game.

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