Not the first electronic video game, but it was the first arcade video game, according to wikipedia. Arcade games before that were electromechanical.
Similar ad photo, but with more ad copy:
Nolan Bushnell was one of the two developers of this. He famously went on to create the Atari corporation.
This had similar gameplay to Space War (1962), one of the first video games ever, but that one never made it out of university labs, and required a computer the size of a couple refrigerators. Computer Space made it into arcades and fit into a svelte arcade console.
Cabinets, 1 and 2 player versions,
Nutting Associates decorating their adverts with some random woman in a see-through nighty seems a bit on the nose.
A video with plenty of information, including gameplay, and a peek inside:
That was great! What a cool cabinet.
The Space WarS arcade game I played occasionally in the arcade in the early 80s. It was a good game. Two player only, so you had to recruit someone to play with you.
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