Recreating Tennis for Two, The Classic 1958 Video Game

by Scott Beale on July 16, 2008 · 0 comments

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have recreated “Tennis for Two” a historic video game using an oscilloscope orginally created in 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. It was one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display and predated Pong by 14 years. Here’s their write-up on the project.

Foo Camp 2008

EMSL gave me a sneak preview of “Tennis for Two” at Foo Camp last weekend.

photo by Scott Beale

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