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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6 Posted 230 days ago by nooitaf
wow, thanks for posting this !!!
the curves look so real, very amazing.
9 Posted 230 days ago by Ritty5
It looks like the arcs and curves are more realistic than some of the tennis games out these days... EXCELENT!!!

14 Posted 230 days ago by drevil
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
19 Posted 228 days ago by Sizzlik
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 
20 Posted 223 days ago by MsZoomy (admin)
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!
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1 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 230 days ago by Darnko
cool but would get boring quite fast