Tennis for Two
Tennis for Two is often called the world's first video game.
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More than half a century ago, nuclear physicist Willy Higinbotham wanted to "liven up" Brookhaven Lab with an entertainment experiment. At BNL's annual open house in 1958, Higinbotham developed what is often called the world's first video game. Hundreds lined up to play "Tennis for Two," an interactive game that consisted of an analog computer, two clunky controllers and an oscilloscope screen just five inches in diameter. Visitors, who were among the world's first players, saw a two-dimensional side view of a tennis court on the oscilloscope screen. They served and volleyed with controllers equipped with knobs and dials to control the angle of the swing of an invisible tennis racket.