World's first electronic sports tournament - photo

[Altair]

The Space Invaders Tournament held in 1980 was the first electronic sports event.

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Previously:

Cardboard tetris game - GIF
Homemade cardboard gameboy - GIF
Stool used as video game steering wheel - GIF
Full motion flight game simulator - GIF
Immersive motion racing simulator - GIF

[IntheGroove]

All those nerds are probably part of the tech world...

[Hoosiersmoker]

Wonder if it's a giant Pong tournament?

[Frank S]

Wonder if it's a giant Pong tournament?

The caption said space invaders, but they had similar tournaments for paceman, donkey kong, Mario bros. Tetrus, you name it if some fool invented a video game other fools played them and held tournaments. However there is at least some scientific data that suggests the video games helped to promote hand -eye coordination preparing future workers for mundane receptive assembly jobs among other things. Joystick simulator games play a huge part in flight training for one. Micro surgical procedures is another. there are many more reasons to plat those silly games as long as you eventually extricate yourself from your parents basement and seek out employment

[Jon]

The new era of children's video games (Roblox in particular) are arguably far more insidious than even the most gory first person shooters of a previous era. They may not necessarily be outwardly violent, but they are created to be highly addictive under the guise of happy fun children's gaming, and are also targeted to younger children.

[ductape]

Games like Roblox, Fortnite, and Minecraft appeal to younger players. Microtransactions in those type of games have been compared to a gambling addiction. The US NIH did a study on this. Insidious intentions or not, it's becoming a problem.