First Video Game
Abstract
More than fifty years ago, before either arcades or home video games, visitors waited in line at Brookhaven National Laboratory to play Tennis for Two, an electronic tennis game that is unquestionably a forerunner of the modern video game. Two people played the electronic tennis game with separate controllers that connected to an analog computer and used an oscilloscope for a screen. The game's creator, William Higinbotham, was a physicist who lobbied for nuclear nonproliferation as the first chair of the Federation of American Scientists.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 987603
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS; VIDEO GAME; ANALOG COMPUTER; TENNIS GAME; WILLIAM HIGINBOTHAM; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT COMPUTER
Citation Formats
Takacs, Peter. First Video Game. United States: N. p., 2008.
Web.
Takacs, Peter. First Video Game. United States.
Takacs, Peter. Tue .
"First Video Game". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/987603.
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year = {Tue Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2008},
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