[Video]Tennis for Two: The world's first video game review

by hanyelv on 2008-11-10 12:48:23

In 1958, Wiley. When Dr. William Higinbotham, who worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory (the U.S. government's nuclear laboratory), planned a speaking tour to reassure the farmers around him about the facility, he thought of something to impress them with. So he and his colleagues used a computer to create a very crude Tennis simulation program on a circular oscilloscope, and named it "Tennis for two" (Tennis for two), in fact, it is just a white dot jumping on both sides of a white line. The people at the farm were amazed at the novelty, but Wiley and his colleagues dismantled the machine when they returned to the lab.