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Computer Game Trivia:

If you define a "computer game" as one developed for play on a computer, MIT probably has a good claim.  The following is from Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_game).

"One of the first computer games was developed in 1961, when MIT students Martin Graetz and Alan Kotok, with MIT employee Stephen Russell, developed Spacewar! on a PDP-1 computer used for statistical calculations."

However there were computer versions of standard paper and board games such as tic-tac-toe, checkers, etc. before that. Those I remember used FORTRAN 1 on early IBM machines so it would date them to some time after April 1957, which was when the first FORTRAN compiler was released. 

One other reference I did find was for "Los Alamos Chess," which was demonstrated in 1956 on a MANIAC I computer. The computer actually won it's second game against a human. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_chess )

also: More than one third of the United States' manned spaceflights have included MIT-educated astronauts, among them Buzz Aldrin (Sc. D XVI '63), more than any university excluding the United States service academies