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The First Video Game: "Tennis for Two"

1958
Tennis For Two on a DuMont Lab Oscilloscope Type 304 A
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"Tennis for Two" running on an oscilloscope in 1958.

In 1958 William Higinbotham, head of the Instrumentation Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, invented the first video game, "Tennis for Two". It ran on an analog computer hooked up to an oscilloscope.

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Games / Sports / Simulations