i don`t understand this is now beyond out of date so how are the games of 2000 and onwards going to be outdated in a hundred years time are we going to have a chip in are brains that play the game through are eyes and the screen shows when we close are eyes. if anything i just what less bugs and glitches quieter consoles and longer game play if anything graphics are at there best now just check out uncharted 3
@ozboybrian if you consider how far weve come in 50 years. Personally, i think within our life time we will all be able to plug into a tro/matrix alternate reality and play games with people anywhere in the world.
Noughts and crosses (OXO) was not an arcade style game. It simply duplicated what could be drawn on a leaf of paper. A totally static CRT display cannot be construed as an arcade video game.
Willy Higginbotham created the first arcade video game! Good job old bean! I don't care what Baer and Bushnell say! One does not have to patent and profit to be recognized as an innovator. Legality will never in the end trump veracity.
youtube! this works on any video, including this 1, play an arcade game on youtube!!!
pause, scroll back to 0:0 and go to your arowkeys, and hit up and left at the same time, and quickly move the arrow keys to move the snake, and get the white dots, if u get them all, ull be able to upload videos more than 15 minuits! unless u have copyrighted material, but its still fun! try it now!
God how i hate those tennis games come to think of it ANY tennis game. You wouldn't throw those controllers at the TV when you lost, now would ya? Could you imagine if the American government owned the rights to computer tennis. Pong would never had existed (bonus) HA! missile defense shield would be a really big bat in the sky...LOL
The first computer/Console game was made in 1941 by an American. But there is rumours the actual first electronic game was made in Nazi Germany by computer and electronic scientists. machine running the game was so big it took a whole floor on the house they where working on
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4:28 (I'm doing a speech on the history of video games for a class, and I want to use a clip of this video in it. The time is the start marker for when I come back to load the video in class.)
A market for such a thing, this might have stayed a novelty of universities and academics.
Just like the Library of Alexandria burning down set us back hundreds of years, and we got along fine, the loss of Pong at the start would have meant the delay into the video game concept.
imagine if it was possible for old analog computers to have net....if they did...chances are it would be something like lit up "morse code" and such and thats how msg's would get across, that is if it was possible:P If it was im sure the net of a analog computer would be waaaaay limited compare to todays digital internet.
Dial-up modems took digital signals, converted it to audio signals, then another modem at the end converted it back. The signal was a series of sqauwls, beeps, squeeks, bleeps, and static, amongst other signals beyond the range of human hearing. The data was compressed in that audio. That's how dial-up worked.
It was probably before your time, and it wasn't analog to begin with, but it worked on a similiar principal you are describing.
@Racersstorm Sorry but you are wrong. NIMROD was computer made to play NIM but did not use a video display. Thus not a VIDEO game. The first one that used a digital graphical display was 1952: OXO / Noughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe). Tennis for Two (the game in the video) came 6 years later, but it is much more advanced that tic-tac-toe :P
Brilliant mind. Too bad this man could not have made some real money from his gaming concept. Though it's true the equipment he used came with what seems a well laid out set of instructions. The real credit goes to the idea of converging these into an interactive game using controllers to manipulate response on a visual screen and with two players.
Very interesting! Good thing there are imaginative and innovative people in the world. In his wildest dreams he probably never imagined what we now have, 50 years later.
True, but Nintendo started in 1889, yet their first release isn't a true first video game (obviously).
Nintendo started the whole history, and OXO got video involved. If anything before OXO was made, I'd like to see that (and the gymnasium full of computers to run it).
well in 1 way this is good he invented a game it went into all dose awesome games today in another way its bad coz people get lazy personally i love da guy coz da world wuldnt be da same if he didnt invent da game
so, i've noticed the videogames started by using devices which were not meant to be consoles. first game out there, "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device" was played on a radar. second one, "OXO" (AKA "naughts and crosses") on a weird phone-pc-gizmo-thingy. third one: "Spacewar!" used to be played on a fridge-sized computer. and this one "tennis for 2" on an oscilloscope.
XD so, games are the result of brilliant people at work getting bored.
Is there a video relating the days people did play the first time a game called "Hunt the Wumpus"? You had to take notes to be able to play with strategy this game that doesn't need graphics. I've seen many stories about Tennis (here), Pong, Space War, even OXO... but not really on Wumpus, except a mention.
I though Space Invaders was the first Video Game ever for a while, but then though: "Hey, this can't be it, the graphics is to damn good!". And this game may lack on GUI but it still has pretty good graphics! It reached it's 50th Anniversary in 1997, then now as of 2009 it's reached the age of 62.
Wow! So this is where it all started! Imagine if this was never created,we would never have ps3s,wii,xbox(etc)Good thing that this was invented!William Higinbotham your so awesome!!!=D
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man you are so dumb it wouldnt matter if he made this even ping pong wasnt important except being the first video game if anything an atari system was the start of the video game line and then as you can see our species developed and made the ps3 dope and im only 11
This was the first video game .This is the first game,first tennis video game ever created.Atari was created till later.This game even has a controller,which basically is a video game.Oh and im only 15.=P
@partydude9999 Not really. Because of how little communication there was on the subject video games came about almost independently a few times. Mostly tic-tac-toe or something like this. there was a tic tac toe game the definitely predated it.
@partydude9999 It's not just this. Be thankful for all the other classic systems like NES, Atari, Genesis, or you would never have Mario, Sonic, or even the whole industry for that matter.
If Ford hadn't created the affordable car, we would have been set back years on that revolution. Without this game, we would have been set back on that, too. There is nothing saying we would have Mario or any other modern console today without this.
I don't think anyone was influenced from pong, sure there were other versions of pong for home entertainment however pong's technology was never used in the odyssey (by the way Pong is not the first video game ever for all of you who think that), and many other consoles could just manage without pong.
Pong was the first commercial game. When they tested a prototype machine in a bar, the owner of the bar called them and said the machine broke. When they came to see what happened, the coin box was full, it couldn't accept any more quarters. I would say that influenced something.
The first home systems were ports of Pong. With it's popularity in bars, bowling allys, and pinball arcades at the time, it guaranteed it would be a home hit.
All I can say is,"THANK YOU WILLIAM HIGINBOTHAM!!!!Thank you for creating something that has led to occupying literally years of my life.I never knew that the inventor of video games was named Higinbotham.
wow 1st to 7th generations, we're gonno reach the 8th generation soon but we couldn't have done without the guys who invented all teh 1st gen video games in the 1900's
looks awesome, and it makes a sound when you hit the ball like the real game, and the graphics are really good and smooth IMO. 5/5 for the first video game in history.
Acually, not many know the first computer game ever created was a Tennis type game like this one only came in 1931 along with one of the first computers
You're right, there was a checkers program made in 1951, but that was hardly qualified as a video game because it didn't use a video output... it was actually a real chess/checkers board with fixed lights underneath presenting moves made by the computer.
Here's the deal. There is absolutely no known evidence of the missle game, other than a patent, which doesn't mean that it was actually made. OXO was the first known video game. Computer Space was the first coin-op video game. Pong was the first successful video game. Tennis for Two is in between OXO and Computer Space. The Odyssey comes years after Computer Space. End of story.
There are a few more done on old mainframes, but didn't have any kind of display. The oldest might be "Core Wars." This was a game played by programmers when computer memory was on ferrite cores. Goes back to the earliest vacuum tube models. The object of Core Wars is to write a program to capture more memory for your program, while preventing your opponent from capturing any for his program. An xtra bonus is given if you can capture the memory your opponent is presently using to run his program
it was made in 1958 the first videogame was made in 1952 called noughts and crosses by A.S Douglas. it wwas tic tac toe but no one ever heard of it because the computer was so big it couldn't leave where he made it
Atari was created in 1972. Mr Game & Watch in 1980. Coincidentially, Mr Game & Watch was created the same year as the Game & Watch. What a weird coincidence.
Shut the fuck up. You can't tell time, somebody else probebly wouldve come up with something similar to this anyway, and really, you really wouldnt be able to tell if it wouldve been better without this man inventing it, or if it wouldve been worse. He is the one who started it, but if he hadnt, then probebly somebody else would, so shut the hell up. You cant travel through time and you dont have all of the fucking answers.
we,homo sapiens are amazing....
Traod7 1 week ago
Better than battlefield 3-,-
justforVIDEOSqmz 1 month ago
Not joking better than pong cause it's more bouncy and fun and it's green and white.
11TechGuy 1 month ago
i don`t understand this is now beyond out of date so how are the games of 2000 and onwards going to be outdated in a hundred years time are we going to have a chip in are brains that play the game through are eyes and the screen shows when we close are eyes. if anything i just what less bugs and glitches quieter consoles and longer game play if anything graphics are at there best now just check out uncharted 3
crimsonglass123 2 months ago
@Mountaind3ws lol
Warlonging 2 months ago
Needs some online multiplayer, some power-ups, maybe some high-score leaderboards...
lol no don't fricking change it at all 'cause the graphics are kickass
TyDurr1 2 months ago
Crazy to see where games started and now games like Skyrim are out...
Man, imagine what it's gonna be like in another 50 years.
ozboybrian 2 months ago 5
@ozboybrian if you consider how far weve come in 50 years. Personally, i think within our life time we will all be able to plug into a tro/matrix alternate reality and play games with people anywhere in the world.
polivo0111 1 month ago
@ozboybrian More like look at battlefield, the newest engine, incredible ._.
GheoHawk 4 weeks ago
@ozboybrian The world ends in 15 seconds.. derp.
whatsmynamegaming 1 week ago
Noughts and crosses (OXO) was not an arcade style game. It simply duplicated what could be drawn on a leaf of paper. A totally static CRT display cannot be construed as an arcade video game.
higgme1ster 2 months ago
Willy Higginbotham created the first arcade video game! Good job old bean! I don't care what Baer and Bushnell say! One does not have to patent and profit to be recognized as an innovator. Legality will never in the end trump veracity.
higgme1ster 2 months ago
I wonder if this is compatible with my Happauge HD PVR, I want to make montages.
MagnuMxAvengeR 3 months ago
pause at 0:00 and press the left and down key at the same time.
TheAisanKid 3 months ago
thumps up for the guy who will create a hack for this
mourlosakis 4 months ago
its called nim not tennis for two
JuddeGaming 5 months ago
@JuddeGaming No, nim is completely different.
ColinKochevar 3 months ago
this guy invent laziness!!
TheKnn999 5 months ago
the first was space wars
theatheistpreacher 6 months ago
@theatheistpreacher This game way before space war. This was 1958, Space War was 1961.
SuperPastaMan1 5 months ago
youtube! this works on any video, including this 1, play an arcade game on youtube!!!
pause, scroll back to 0:0 and go to your arowkeys, and hit up and left at the same time, and quickly move the arrow keys to move the snake, and get the white dots, if u get them all, ull be able to upload videos more than 15 minuits! unless u have copyrighted material, but its still fun! try it now!
nairad100 6 months ago
God how i hate those tennis games come to think of it ANY tennis game. You wouldn't throw those controllers at the TV when you lost, now would ya? Could you imagine if the American government owned the rights to computer tennis. Pong would never had existed (bonus) HA! missile defense shield would be a really big bat in the sky...LOL
blackcountryme 6 months ago
Now every single game ever made is a ripoff of Tennis for Two.
Chirpachirp 7 months ago
I bet Gordon Freeman played that
Lifeofhalf 7 months ago
The first computer/Console game was made in 1941 by an American. But there is rumours the actual first electronic game was made in Nazi Germany by computer and electronic scientists. machine running the game was so big it took a whole floor on the house they where working on
SMGJohn 7 months ago
the first normal video game was (rpg style) ultima in 1980.
NONOBAKACI 8 months ago
Needs Moar BLAST PROCESSING!
iSrosh128 8 months ago
So much wiring and machinery. Now we can have the whole internet, and tons of games on a device smaller than your hand.
Milomia9 9 months ago
The first video game was Pong
OriginalNamesHD 9 months ago
the first was OXO (its true) tenis for two was the second and pong is later
mataiisc89 9 months ago
Dr.Higginbotham (LBP2) is a refferece to william... who created this game
alstorp100 9 months ago
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Symbiote1996 10 months ago
this wasnt first...
The first game was Cathode ray tube Amusement Device
iDontbreakPS3 10 months ago
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@iDontbreakPS3 "Cathode ray tube Amusement Device" is not a video game but it was the first electornic game.
ConcordantMind 8 months ago
4:28 (I'm doing a speech on the history of video games for a class, and I want to use a clip of this video in it. The time is the start marker for when I come back to load the video in class.)
eyeonus 10 months ago
4:28 (I'm doing a speech on the history of video games for a class, and I want to use a clip of this video in it. The time is the start marker for when I come back to load the video in class.)
eyeonus 10 months ago
if this wasn't invented we should've had better stuff than the crappy hd 6990 core i7
DBZisthebestanimever 10 months ago
actually, Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device came first
supermark64 10 months ago
wait you can make a robot but not a lame 50's deformed video game
ShannaPondanna 11 months ago
oxo
ShannaPondanna 11 months ago
Tennis For Two was the second video game, The first was the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device.
ZamphereRiley 1 year ago
what will our children be playing next?? someone is gonna invent something new, might be you...
GIRLANDLAKAIFORLIFE 1 year ago
@GIRLANDLAKAIFORLIFE Let me guess.....WITH GUNS? YAY!
VaygrX 10 months ago
what!?!?.... no online?
xXxTRYAGAINxXx 1 year ago 14
A market for such a thing, this might have stayed a novelty of universities and academics.
Just like the Library of Alexandria burning down set us back hundreds of years, and we got along fine, the loss of Pong at the start would have meant the delay into the video game concept.
Draknfyre 1 year ago
imagine if it was possible for old analog computers to have net....if they did...chances are it would be something like lit up "morse code" and such and thats how msg's would get across, that is if it was possible:P If it was im sure the net of a analog computer would be waaaaay limited compare to todays digital internet.
girlstorm09 1 year ago
@girlstorm09
It's called a modem.
Dial-up modems took digital signals, converted it to audio signals, then another modem at the end converted it back. The signal was a series of sqauwls, beeps, squeeks, bleeps, and static, amongst other signals beyond the range of human hearing. The data was compressed in that audio. That's how dial-up worked.
It was probably before your time, and it wasn't analog to begin with, but it worked on a similiar principal you are describing.
Draknfyre 1 year ago
"3 man months" lol this guy watches too much star wars xD
mcennis4545 1 year ago
wrong the first game was released in the 40´s its called Nim
just search youtube:
the game of Nim.
Racersstorm 1 year ago
@Racersstorm Sorry but you are wrong. NIMROD was computer made to play NIM but did not use a video display. Thus not a VIDEO game. The first one that used a digital graphical display was 1952: OXO / Noughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe). Tennis for Two (the game in the video) came 6 years later, but it is much more advanced that tic-tac-toe :P
TheAnderru 1 year ago
Fascinating little clip on a very important chapter in the evolution of video games
adventurebloc 1 year ago
funfact: it's better than Halo and Call of Fuck-It: 19th Release of the same Fucking Game
(oh-no-you-didn't)
Minority119 1 year ago
I thought pong was the first videogame?
they even call its designer the father of videogames or something like that
mememe84 1 year ago
@mememe84
Pong was the first COMMERCIAL video game.
Draknfyre 1 year ago
what is this game called if it had a name
warhammer239 1 year ago
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Cemilhimself 1 year ago
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Cemilhimself 1 year ago
Brilliant mind. Too bad this man could not have made some real money from his gaming concept. Though it's true the equipment he used came with what seems a well laid out set of instructions. The real credit goes to the idea of converging these into an interactive game using controllers to manipulate response on a visual screen and with two players.
stevenmiles 1 year ago
i would play this game all day O.o
cristixyz 1 year ago
InsaneAccorn send me here
JPMHUDProductions 1 year ago
this is so cool
i kinda like he invented this
tweengirl11 1 year ago
this is so cool
tweengirl11 1 year ago
Kinda funny with the for two things starting alot, electronic music was started with the song bicycle built for two, with a synth talking
Animeisfuture 1 year ago
Very interesting! Good thing there are imaginative and innovative people in the world. In his wildest dreams he probably never imagined what we now have, 50 years later.
ptraiders40 1 year ago
Actually, a game called "OXO" was created in 1952, being the first ever video game.
It was simply an interactive game of Tic-Tac-Toe against the computer.
georgef551 1 year ago
@georgef551 OXO isn't labeled the first invented game, though. Yes, it deserves a little love from the history, but it's not the true first game.
ChrisJohnson2K 1 year ago
@ChrisJohnson2K
True, but Nintendo started in 1889, yet their first release isn't a true first video game (obviously).
Nintendo started the whole history, and OXO got video involved. If anything before OXO was made, I'd like to see that (and the gymnasium full of computers to run it).
georgef551 1 year ago
@georgef551 Tennis for Two, right above you.
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
@Bittergamer1886
I wonder where Mario fits into all of this? :D
georgef551 1 year ago
@georgef551 1981, Donkey Kong. Lol.
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
@Bittergamer1886
If a video game system was as big as these old giants are, with current technology, imagine what they could do?
georgef551 1 year ago
@georgef551 Oh dear lord!
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
what engine this run on? I thinks its the source engine
w4rr3np34c3 1 year ago
This looks too new.
DoctorCrown8 1 year ago
Omg, this looks better then Pong and this came before that? :O!
deogrou 1 year ago
Willy Higinbotham, is the first Videogame Man ever! He is my Hero! :-) Very Great Man !
Starfighterking 1 year ago
In 2030 The kids will laughing with PS3!
eytyxios94 1 year ago
@eytyxios94 it's 2010 and I still don't laugh about this
l1mewaxer 1 year ago
@l1mewaxer --_--"
eytyxios94 1 year ago
well in 1 way this is good he invented a game it went into all dose awesome games today in another way its bad coz people get lazy personally i love da guy coz da world wuldnt be da same if he didnt invent da game
gangsteriuxxx 1 year ago
so, i've noticed the videogames started by using devices which were not meant to be consoles. first game out there, "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device" was played on a radar. second one, "OXO" (AKA "naughts and crosses") on a weird phone-pc-gizmo-thingy. third one: "Spacewar!" used to be played on a fridge-sized computer. and this one "tennis for 2" on an oscilloscope.
XD so, games are the result of brilliant people at work getting bored.
killerkoliseo 1 year ago
@killerkoliseo It's so fitting... videogames were born because people were bored out of their minds xD
PSXPato 1 year ago
the first videogame is OXO :-)
pcna 1 year ago
@pcna not at all, that came out in the 50's.
in 1947 there was the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device patented by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. :)
killerkoliseo 1 year ago
this looks pretty awesome!
But the first game was OXO
dmxezz 1 year ago
this is cool :D
notfunny103 1 year ago
Talk about sexxi controllers!!
PutzkiSniper 1 year ago 19
yes this was the first game
TheAteston 1 year ago
Nope. A computer game called "OXO" was created in 1952.
benjaminvlz 1 year ago
soooooooooo...... when's that coming to the PS3??? [=
rokmc23 1 year ago 3
@rokmc23 there's gonna be a remastered version for the 3DS =P
killerkoliseo 1 year ago
Its pongs daddy lol
TheBluechampion 1 year ago
Is a man-month different from a women month?
Sinnott147 1 year ago
Better than pong!
SargentoBombarda 1 year ago
i gotta write a paper on this topic. video really helped!
Doritoes10 2 years ago
hey, me too! :)
Clubbss 1 year ago
me too!
kdsdm 1 year ago
@Doritoes10 me to this is my researc paper
TheBluechampion 1 year ago
it had even physics lol i tell you
Sansoots 2 years ago
Is there a video relating the days people did play the first time a game called "Hunt the Wumpus"? You had to take notes to be able to play with strategy this game that doesn't need graphics. I've seen many stories about Tennis (here), Pong, Space War, even OXO... but not really on Wumpus, except a mention.
newcoleco 2 years ago
This was the SECOND video game---the first was 1952, called "OXO", a tic-tac-toe game. Google it, or search on youtube for it.
JoeyTribiane 2 years ago 2
ya i know this was the very first and the very realistic
TheUnknownD 2 years ago
I though Space Invaders was the first Video Game ever for a while, but then though: "Hey, this can't be it, the graphics is to damn good!". And this game may lack on GUI but it still has pretty good graphics! It reached it's 50th Anniversary in 1997, then now as of 2009 it's reached the age of 62.
LivingdeadMetal 2 years ago
And look were we are today!!!
Droidfan2092 2 years ago
this was the first game orr one of the first
TheUnknownD 2 years ago
it was the first video game ever actually. Soon after came the arcade machines
bullethead2202 2 years ago
so ghetto haha
gonefishin1217 2 years ago
how the hell is this ghetto?
wryipadgh 2 years ago 2
I thought the Tic-Tac-Toe thing in 1952 was the first ever graphic computer game!
auman311 2 years ago
OXO? Yeah i Think so
hugothenerd 2 years ago
Wow! So this is where it all started! Imagine if this was never created,we would never have ps3s,wii,xbox(etc)Good thing that this was invented!William Higinbotham your so awesome!!!=D
partydude9999 2 years ago 49
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man you are so dumb it wouldnt matter if he made this even ping pong wasnt important except being the first video game if anything an atari system was the start of the video game line and then as you can see our species developed and made the ps3 dope and im only 11
merkno76 2 years ago
This was the first video game .This is the first game,first tennis video game ever created.Atari was created till later.This game even has a controller,which basically is a video game.Oh and im only 15.=P
partydude9999 2 years ago 3
@merkno76
If you would've noticed this is not pong, and this is very important in video gaming, seeing as this is the foundation of programming for videogames.
Toderico 2 years ago
@Merkno76
Man you shut the fuck up there would be no consoles and video games if this wasn't created.
FS2004ACoF 2 years ago
@partydude9999 Not really. Because of how little communication there was on the subject video games came about almost independently a few times. Mostly tic-tac-toe or something like this. there was a tic tac toe game the definitely predated it.
qulqunick 1 year ago
@partydude9999 Someone else would have started it sooner or later, though.
h1pe0pl3lol 1 year ago
@partydude9999 It's not just this. Be thankful for all the other classic systems like NES, Atari, Genesis, or you would never have Mario, Sonic, or even the whole industry for that matter.
Bittergamer1886 1 year ago
@partydude9999
uh if it was never created we would still have all of that
what are you talking about
BrucieWayne 1 year ago
@BrucieWayne
If Ford hadn't created the affordable car, we would have been set back years on that revolution. Without this game, we would have been set back on that, too. There is nothing saying we would have Mario or any other modern console today without this.
Draknfyre 1 year ago
@Draknfyre
I don't think anyone was influenced from pong, sure there were other versions of pong for home entertainment however pong's technology was never used in the odyssey (by the way Pong is not the first video game ever for all of you who think that), and many other consoles could just manage without pong.
BrucieWayne 1 year ago
@BrucieWayne
Pong was the first commercial game. When they tested a prototype machine in a bar, the owner of the bar called them and said the machine broke. When they came to see what happened, the coin box was full, it couldn't accept any more quarters. I would say that influenced something.
The first home systems were ports of Pong. With it's popularity in bars, bowling allys, and pinball arcades at the time, it guaranteed it would be a home hit.
Without having Pong to show there was
Draknfyre 1 year ago
@partydude9999 calm down, if he wouldn't have invited this some one else would have done it
zederish 1 year ago
@partydude9999 i know right? and some say video games were the inspiration of the computers we have today! So no video game=no computer.
girl860 1 year ago
lol from that to crysis, imagine another 50 years will be awesome.
J0RDSKI 2 years ago 2
Will we just leave reality behind entirely?
DejectedPanda 2 years ago
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omg awesome 2 imagine, but sadly, we will all die in 2012. and people that was a joke im not one of them freaks who belives that.
LLDJ1997 2 years ago
The way things are evolving, every year proves to out do the last one by scores and scores. 50 years is too hard to predict.
poobert 2 years ago
All I can say is,"THANK YOU WILLIAM HIGINBOTHAM!!!!Thank you for creating something that has led to occupying literally years of my life.I never knew that the inventor of video games was named Higinbotham.
1unusedname 2 years ago
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TNAFUTURE999 2 years ago
better graphics than the flopbox 360 :P
xXTREY4LIFEXx 2 years ago
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is just something that moves with some cap in front....
Ps3Tower 2 years ago
finally a game that doesn't lag come to PAPA!
louieisanan 2 years ago 77
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BOOBS
seanSHRED87 2 years ago
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BOOBS
seanSHRED87 2 years ago
Probably worth a lot of money
retrogamer96 2 years ago
but OXO was from 1952
mick0le0pick 2 years ago
wow 1st to 7th generations, we're gonno reach the 8th generation soon but we couldn't have done without the guys who invented all teh 1st gen video games in the 1900's
Flat6313609 2 years ago 2
good physics for the first video game
deathofhart 2 years ago 4
looks awesome, and it makes a sound when you hit the ball like the real game, and the graphics are really good and smooth IMO. 5/5 for the first video game in history.
DicesukeInuzuka 2 years ago 6
Imagine if this wasn't ever invented....We may not have "Halo 3" and Xbox 360's and stuff...Wow..
GamerLifeTV 2 years ago 3
i think the freakier thing is imagine if the fukin gov't had gotten a hold of the patent thats the scarier one
TheGr3mliin 2 years ago 3
I guess that would be 1 upside but we wouldnt have ps2 either :<
tisokan 2 years ago
can I run this on my OSX,does anyone have the torrent?
thedirtydeltas 2 years ago
wow the graphics are amazing! hahaha
Spartilianz 2 years ago
Acually, not many know the first computer game ever created was a Tennis type game like this one only came in 1931 along with one of the first computers
maniclotus 2 years ago
It looks fun all you have is a thing to spin and a butten and BOOM your playing
FireBoom1 2 years ago 2
Prettly much beats Pong as the first ever video game. Pong was the first video game for the public however.
megamanfan3 2 years ago
wow I can create that game in the games factory ;P
haryPSP 2 years ago
actually, the first known video game was a chess program developed in 1950. - 1951. OXO did not appear until 1952
hydesyde 2 years ago
You're right, there was a checkers program made in 1951, but that was hardly qualified as a video game because it didn't use a video output... it was actually a real chess/checkers board with fixed lights underneath presenting moves made by the computer.
ClinicalAttacked 2 years ago 5
what abotu the missle simulator in the late 1940s
Brian91506 2 years ago
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had no graphics and is therefore not a video game it used physical overlays on the screen
TheGr3mliin 2 years ago
Sweet! It was in Brookhaven. Do you think this is what they named Silent Hill after?
thegmanyo 2 years ago 2
Here's the deal. There is absolutely no known evidence of the missle game, other than a patent, which doesn't mean that it was actually made. OXO was the first known video game. Computer Space was the first coin-op video game. Pong was the first successful video game. Tennis for Two is in between OXO and Computer Space. The Odyssey comes years after Computer Space. End of story.
DZKProductions 2 years ago
yea but wasn't OXO successful?
plusleandminun24 2 years ago
i would argue that OXO was a game but not a video game as it had graphics but no actual on screen game play motion or physics
TheGr3mliin 2 years ago 3
There are a few more done on old mainframes, but didn't have any kind of display. The oldest might be "Core Wars." This was a game played by programmers when computer memory was on ferrite cores. Goes back to the earliest vacuum tube models. The object of Core Wars is to write a program to capture more memory for your program, while preventing your opponent from capturing any for his program. An xtra bonus is given if you can capture the memory your opponent is presently using to run his program
pnfkwfl 2 years ago
The first game was actually a tic tac toe game.
GaiasFinestGamers 2 years ago
no it wasn't
plusleandminun24 2 years ago
but this game made in 1947
WiNsToN1956 2 years ago 3
it was made in 1958 the first videogame was made in 1952 called noughts and crosses by A.S Douglas. it wwas tic tac toe but no one ever heard of it because the computer was so big it couldn't leave where he made it
GOrockets11 2 years ago
well, for being that early it was really good graphics
friekinmaster102 2 years ago 7
this is the seconc video game, the first is OXO maid in the year 1952
cirssdj 2 years ago
But this video game was made in 1947
aeco15 2 years ago
The first is not OXO, the first was made in 1947 by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr, an American, British did not invent video games im sorry lol
Eurocannibal 2 years ago
This guy beat nolan bushnell.
dadawg911 2 years ago
i think the first game ever was OXO not tennis for two
BadNinja16 3 years ago
the guy who inventided this lives next to my friend
Spiker10is 3 years ago
yea right oh and btw who was first atari or mr.game&watch?
plusleandminun24 3 years ago
shut up bellport is right next to brookhaven and u probaly think your the ppokemon master
Spiker10is 3 years ago
sorry but still who was first mr.game&watch or atari?
kittenlover24 3 years ago
idk i dont play video games this was in my ny ela state exam
Spiker10is 3 years ago
that was to that other kid
Spiker10is 3 years ago
Atari
iHawke 2 years ago
ok nevermind just tell me who first atari or mr.game&watch?
plusleandminun24 2 years ago
Atari was created in 1972. Mr Game & Watch in 1980. Coincidentially, Mr Game & Watch was created the same year as the Game & Watch. What a weird coincidence.
theultimatekoopa2 2 years ago
the Voxa system came like 6 years before the first Atari...
DoNultima 2 years ago
Its called history, and without this, you wouldn't be playing video games today.
95ellington 3 years ago 2
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Shut the fuck up. You can't tell time, somebody else probebly wouldve come up with something similar to this anyway, and really, you really wouldnt be able to tell if it wouldve been better without this man inventing it, or if it wouldve been worse. He is the one who started it, but if he hadnt, then probebly somebody else would, so shut the hell up. You cant travel through time and you dont have all of the fucking answers.
Atreyu54321 3 years ago