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Tennis for Two (also known as Computer Tennis) ... In 2011, Stony Brook University founded the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection, ...
Higinbotham remained little interested in video games, preferring to be remembered for his work in nuclear nonproliferation. After his death, as requests for information on Tennis for Two increased, his son William B. Higinbotham told Brookhaven: "It is imperative that you include information on his nuclear nonproliferation work. That was what ...
Designed by William Higinbotham in 1958 at Brookhaven National Labs on Long Island, NY, Tennis for Two is commonly regarded as the first video game ever designed. This video features a reproduced version of the game built at Brookhaven using original components, for its 50th anniversary.
The earliest sports video game dates backs to 1958, when William Higinbotham created a game called Tennis for Two, a competitive two-player tennis game played on an oscilloscope. The players would select the angle at which to put their racket, and pressed a button to return it.
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In 1985, Nintendo sued and tried to invalidate the patents, claiming as prior art the 1958 Tennis for Two game built by William Higinbotham. The court, however, ruled that the oscilloscope-based game did not use video signals and therefore did not qualify as a video game, and ruled again in favor of Magnavox and Sanders. [3]
The current version already includes the caveat that Tennis for Two is considered "one of" the first video games. This is true; virtually every discussion of the "first video games" will include the game, and every source for Tennis for Two and Higinbotham notes this feat.
Williamsport's Lauren Toms, Boonsboro's Hunter Liao and South's Mackenzie Fritz and Amanda Frushour added region titles to their county crowns.