The Earliest Documented Video Game

AsiNisiMasa writes "The first documented video game was created in 1952 by a scientist who felt the need to give his work relevance to society. It was called 'Tennis for Two' and took up about as much room as one would expect. The article at Brookhaven History comes complete with several pictures and even video: 'A two-dimensional, side view of a tennis court was displayed on an oscilloscope, which has a cathode-ray tube similar to a black and white TV tube. In order to generate the court and net lines and the ball, it was necessary to time-share these functions. While the rest of the system used vacuum tubes and relays, the time-sharing circuit and the fast switches used transistors, which by 1958 were coming into use.'"

Comments

Interesting I guess, but...

[yurnotsoeviltwin]

Doesn't this bring new meaning to the term "old news?" I mean seriously, reporting an event a few days afterwards is one this, but 53 years is a bit much.

Up, Down, A, B, A, B, Start

[Somatic]

Thus, the first video came combo move was 30 degrees left, 60 degrees right, TheOnlyButton, TheOnlyButton, RESET

(and yeah, it may not be new news, but lighten up. At this point, anything besides another 360, PSP or Hot Coffee lawsuit story is a breath of fresh air).