Hmm Darth, I'm not sure if you know what the word "digital" means in this context, but I'm pretty sure all computers are digital. If you mean handheld gaming device, and even if you disqualify any such one from back in the 90s and earlier, because they didn't have a GSM phone in it... And Jobs didn't invent what was called the PDA either.
The fact that all journalists use Apple doesn't mean everyone else does, not to mention that there are games for other smartphones too. And in no country is the iPhone the smartphone with most market share, Android is usually on top, certainly in the US and the UK.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Baer
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In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console for video games and spawning the video game industry.
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Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games ... Allan Alcorn created Pong as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell based the idea on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey [Baer's console], which later resulted in a lawsuit against Atari.
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Baer created the first light gun and game for home television use ... The light gun itself was the first peripheral for a video game console.
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Another invention is Simon, an electronic pattern-matching game that was immensely popular in the late 1970s and 1980s.[10]
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