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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-12 1. Darnko commented 15 years ago

cool but would get boring quite fast 8-)
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+11 2. arakawa commented 15 years ago

nice graphics! :D
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+22 3. repcent commented 15 years ago

Can we see the system requirements for this one ?
>:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:) >:)
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+4 4. unixostamer commented 15 years ago

future EA, lol
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-8 5. AcAdeMoS19 commented 15 years ago

Too many sound for me, get really annoying.
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+8 6. nooitaf (admin) commented 15 years ago

wow, thanks for posting this !!!
the curves look so real, very amazing.
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+3 7. Nateconq commented 15 years ago

that was hypnotic
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-16 8. Chumney_Warner commented 15 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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+8 9. Ritty5 commented 15 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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+1 10. Dark_Leaf commented 15 years ago

Somehow reminds me of the slime sport games
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0 11. zerorain commented 15 years ago

WOW when is it coming out? best iv seen so far. :|
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+6 12. BombDiggady commented 15 years ago

The physics are quite nice 8-)
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-4 13. r4v3r commented 15 years ago

Is coming out for PS3? I want it
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+3 14. drevil commented 15 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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-2 15. etplayer commented 15 years ago

Need DX10 for this one? Will it work on Vista? Where do I pre-order?
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-1 16. peterpan007 commented 15 years ago

nothing works on vista, lol :'(
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0 17. DarkiKun commented 15 years ago

it is actually really cool, i'd like to have had that =P
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+1 18. patriotaus commented 15 years ago

i second #17
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+1 19. Sizzlik (admin) commented 15 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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+1 20. MsZoomy commented 15 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!
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0 21. Tr0w4Tr3y commented 15 years ago

A Salute for Sir William Higinbotham..
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0 22. LordFren commented 14 years ago

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