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 rating too low, click to show Posted 370 days ago by Darnko

cool but would get boring quite fast 8-)

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2 Posted 370 days ago by arakawa

nice graphics! :D

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3 Posted 370 days ago by repcent

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

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4 Posted 370 days ago by unixostamer

future EA, lol

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5 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 370 days ago by AcAdeMoS19

Too many sound for me, get really annoying.

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6 Posted 370 days ago by nooitaf

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

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7 Posted 370 days ago by Nateconq

that was hypnotic

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8 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 370 days ago by Chumney_Warner

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 Posted 370 days ago by Ritty5

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 Posted 370 days ago by Dark_Leaf

Somehow reminds me of the slime sport games

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11 Posted 370 days ago by zerorain

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

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12 Posted 370 days ago by BombDiggady (moderator)

The physics are quite nice 8-)

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13 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 370 days ago by r4v3r

Is coming out for PS3? I want it

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14 Posted 370 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

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15 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 369 days ago by etplayer

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

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16 Comment rating too low, click to show Posted 369 days ago by peterpan007

nothing works on vista, lol :'(

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17 Posted 368 days ago by DarkiKun

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

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18 Posted 368 days ago by patriotaus (moderator)

i second #17

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19 Posted 367 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 :P

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20 Posted 363 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!
2 :(|) :(|) Monkey Heads

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21 Posted 292 days ago by Tr0w4Tr3y

A Salute for Sir William Higinbotham..