history

In the 1970s, Signetic devised the first video/graphics processors capable of generating sprite graphics. The Signetics 2636 video processors were first used in the 1976 Radofin 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System.
The Elektor TV Games Computer was the first PC capable of generating sprite graphics, which Signetics referred to as "objects". The term "sprite" was coined for the Texas instruments...