Tennis for Two
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Tennis for Two is a 1958 sports video game designed by the American physicist William Higinbotham at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. One of the first games developed in the early history of video
Tennis for Two on a DuMont Lab Oscilloscope Type 304-A
Modern recreation of the controller
The setup for Tennis for Two as exhibited in 1959
The cathode-ray tube amusement device is the earliest-known concept for an interactive electronic game, as well as the first game concept to incorporate an electronic display. As described, the device
Tennis for Two
…analog computer game, Tennis for Two." Tennis for Two is considered under some definitions to be the first video game. Other candidates include the 1947 cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game, though it did not run on a computing device; the 1950 Bertie the Brain, the earliest known game to run…
Circuitry schematic from the patent