Tennis for Two

Re: Tennis for Two Posted by haymaker on Wed Oct 15th 2008 at 11:03pm

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Posted 2008-10-15 11:03pm

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Heard about this on the radio today, a bit of trivia. This prototypical video game was created 50 years ago this week.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.asp

Y'all can thank Higinbotham for your current video game habits! Turns out that he never applied for patent on this technology, which is a good thing, because it would have belonged to the US Gov't.

Re: Tennis for Two Posted by Le Chief on Thu Oct 16th 2008 at 5:04am

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Posted 2008-10-16 5:04am

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Pretty interesting stuff haymaker. Its pretty cool to think about how far video games have come and where they will be in 50 years.

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