Tennis For Two - The second ever computer game

Video Title :	Tennis For Two - The second ever computer game
Description :	Way back in 1958, William Higinbotham invented Tennis For Two to liven up visitor day at Brookhaven National Laboratory, his workplace. The game uses an oscilloscope with two control pads. It remained largely unknown until 1981 when a lawyer trying to break Magnavox's patent for video games came across writings talking about the game. Blueprints of it were found to predate Magnavox's game, the case was settled out of court, and the game found fame as the second ever invented, since it was later predated by A.S. Douglas' 'OXO' game from 1952. The video is sourced from Brookhaven National Laboratory, a governmental institution, and as such, the video is in public domain. Peacespeakers! music is released under a Creative Commons license. You can see a video of theirs here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YaBkugRBmQ Edit: I've been asked quite a few times what music this is. It's 'To Find Our Freedom' by Peacekeepers!, from the album 'Message From Planet Earth'. Their web page can also be found here: http://www.sojusrecords.com/artists/peacespeakers.html
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Rating :	4.88
Keywords, Tags :	video game games tennis for two oscilloscope science laboratory oxo first electronics
Video Length :	2 : 13

Comments :

I would prefer the big old video game ^^

XP LoL

really it was the fourth video game ever but it is the first to be as interactive as it is. I also think it is the first mulitplayer game. Unless the tic-tac-toe game before it was multiplayer, but i think it was cpu against human.

i only remember two video games before this

1-Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device patant issued in dec 14, 1948. missile and target game which used a screen overlay for the targets 2-Draughts 1951 checkers like game 3-OXO 1952 tic tac toe like game 4-tennis for two 1958 i win. lol jk you porbalby didnt know about the cathide ray tube amusement machiene

i remember the cathode ray tube amusement device. i never heard of the draughts game.

yeah wiki said it and it looked true, it is pretty easy to tell when there are lies there. wait you remember like you were there or you know about it and didnt forget what it was? i dont think you are that old are you?

i meant that i heard of the cathode ray tube device game on a website.

the funny thing is how these people are saying ooh look how much better than pong this is when this was run by an almost all analog computer with a few transisters to do fast switching.

this game is way better than pong