Retromodo: Tennis for Two, the World's First Graphical Videogame [Retromodo]

gizmodo.com - 11/10/2008

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In 1958, Dr. William Higinbotham was working at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on a simulation of bouncing balls and missile trajectories that could predict the paths objects could take. Suddenly, it hit him: why not apply this to tennis? He created Tennis for Two, which depending on your ...

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