Tennis for Two
| Tennis for Two | |
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| Tennis for Two on a DuMont Lab Oscilloscope Type 304-A | |
| Senior Developer | William Higinbotham |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
October 18, 1958 |
| platform | oscilloscope |
| genre | Sports simulation |
| Game mode | Multiplayer |
Tennis for Two is a game that was developed and constructed in 1958 by the American physicist William Higinbotham at the Brookhaven National Laboratory . It can be considered the first video game . The hardware consisted of an analog computer and a five-inch (12.5 cm) oscilloscope . The entire system consisted of several parts and was about five meters wide. Two small boxes were used as input, with a button to hit the ball and a knob to set the rebound angle.
The view at Tennis for Two shows a side view of the tennis court; the ball is affected by gravity and it must be played over a net.
The game is the predecessor of the popular pong . The game was demonstrated on the open day of the nuclear research center in its sports hall.
Replica
In 2011, Tennis for Two was newly developed as a T42 for the Museum of Electronic Games & Art (MEGA) as a discrete circuit. In 2012, a tennis-for-two installation was created on a Telefunken RA 742 analog computer for presentation at a media science analog computer conference at the Humboldt University in Berlin .
See also
- OXO (first computer game, 1952)
- Spacewar! (first game on a digital computer, 1961)
- History of video games
Web links
- Brookhaven National Laboratory website showing the game
- Video demonstration of the game on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ^ T42 page at MEGA - Museum of Electronic Games & Art
- ↑ Series of articles about the reconstruction of the game as part of an analog computer conference in 2012 in Stefan Höltgen's weblog