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One of the world's first videogames

Tennis for Two - Created by American physicist William Higinbotham, it is important in the history of video games as one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

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1. Comment rated too low. Show this comment Darnko 3 years ago

cool but would get boring quite fast 8-)

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2. arakawa 3 years ago

nice graphics! :D

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3. repcent 3 years ago

Can we see the system requirements for this one ?
>:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:)

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4. unixostamer 3 years ago

future EA, lol

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5. Comment rated too low. Show this comment AcAdeMoS19 3 years ago

Too many sound for me, get really annoying.

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6. nooitaf (admin) 3 years ago

wow, thanks for posting this !!!
the curves look so real, very amazing.

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7. Nateconq 3 years ago

that was hypnotic

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8. Comment rated too low. Show this comment Chumney_Warner 3 years ago

Bet he is turning in his Grave now after SPORE was released. why why why why all this hard physics for that crap.

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9. Ritty5 3 years ago

It looks like the arcs and curves are more realistic than some of the tennis games out these days... EXCELENT!!! :(|) :(|) :(|) :(|) :(|) :(|)

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10. Dark_Leaf 3 years ago

Somehow reminds me of the slime sport games

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11. zerorain 3 years ago

WOW when is it coming out? best iv seen so far. :|

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12. BombDiggady (moderator) 3 years ago

The physics are quite nice 8-)

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13. Comment rated too low. Show this comment r4v3r 3 years ago

Is coming out for PS3? I want it

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14. drevil 3 years ago

1947 Thomas Goldsmith & Estle Ray Mann: missile simulator
1951 Festival of Britain: NIM
1952 Alexander Douglas: Noughts and Crosses
1958 William Higinbotham: Tennis for Two

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15. Comment rated too low. Show this comment etplayer 3 years ago

Need DX10 for this one? Will it work on Vista? Where do I pre-order?

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16. Comment rated too low. Show this comment peterpan007 3 years ago

nothing works on vista, lol :'(

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17. DarkiKun 3 years ago

it is actually really cool, i'd like to have had that =P

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18. patriotaus (moderator) 3 years ago

i second #17

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19. Sizzlik (admin) 3 years ago

yay...we build sorta that too in science class...oszilloscope and a real big bunch of relays and converters to make the power float in the right amount, direction and wavelengh..but ours was more like a Pong clone were you can spin the ball too and give it a twist...Hooray :P

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20. MsZoomy (admin) 3 years ago

actually pretty cool if you think about it! I still remember the day my dad brought home Pong!! Now THAT was cool!!

Science is fun!
2 :(|) :(|) Monkey Heads

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21. Tr0w4Tr3y 3 years ago

A Salute for Sir William Higinbotham..

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22. LordFren 2 years ago

I wonder how would a GTA type of game would look like :D