I'm still active cranking out retro game videos. Here's a classic arcade game playlist if anyone wants to watch: th-cam.com/play/PL8395DBBA914F9218.html Or a general retro game playlist if anyone has a few hours to burn. Just play it in the background and take a peek now and then ;) th-cam.com/play/PL29Nw7At9Gp0CfAhZ1sibVsAAFsGwFc2K.html
@@Warrior_478 This video features a replica of the original game, recorded in the 80s. Lots of people define earlier systems as video games as well, including CRT Amusement Device made in 1947, and Naughts & Crosses, done on a UK computer in 1952.
@@spingleboygle ooh shit that would be terrifying I’d be freaking out in the base going “ the hell is your problem we’re are doomed soon and all you can do is play video tennis’s ahhhh.”
100 years ago people thought you can jump from moon to earth because moon seems to be falt and high...😮 200 years ago you could walk faster than cars. 300 years ago there was no electricity 400 years ago you thought earth is flat now you can put supercomputer in your pocket, travel around world less than one day you can own car you can get food in fastfood places fews years from now you can go to hotel in space
@@donichiro OXO Was The Real First Video Game, It Was Made Back In 1952, And Was Basically A Digital Version Of Tic-Tac-Toe, Basically, Tennis For Two Is The 2nd Video Game Ever Made, OXO Is The Real First Video Game Ever Made
@@rdo29-q6l Actually Bertie the Brain in 1950 was a thing before OXO (Bertie the Brain was just for a Canadian exposition and got removed soon after), but the Cathode-Ray tube amusement device being the oldest made back in 1947.
For being the first videogame ever it amazes me how it has very advanced physics and visual effects that were impossible for many retro games (I'm pretty sure the components used make these graphics easily possible and is probably based on real physical moving pieces getting visualized into the screen)
@@SeweeTV "Turochamp" by Alan Turing, who invented the computer and considered by many, including myself, quite possibly the most intelligent person that ever lived. His brain was superhuman. It's much more than just a chess engine though. The way Turing designed it was he played a game of chess with a fellow programmer at his facility that lasted a few weeks. The reason was so that Turing could mathematically calculate the best move to retaliate against your opponent. It would take him between 15 minutes to a half hour for him to calculate the move, using pencil and paper in a separate room. Then, when he built Turochamp, he programmed the computer opponent to possess all the calculations Turing had made; thus being able to calculate from whatever you do the strategically best solution. It replicates the exact moves he would have made to your moves. So what makes it so much better than other Chess engines is you're not playing against some computer... You're playing against Alan Turing. The most intelligent opponent of all time.
@@MrMarsFargo Alan Turing didn't invent the computer. Depending on how you see it, it was either Joseph Jacquard (who invented a mechanism which could automatically read and execute instructions written in binary), Charles Babbage (who adapted this mechanism to perform mathematical calculations and theorized that a similar device could run computer programs), Konrad Zuse (who invented the first device capable of running computer programs), Jack Kilby (who invented the microchip), or Federico Faggin (who designed the first practical microchip).
@@handsomebrick Right, but he did program the first video game. I don't where this myth nothing could run it at the time came from, that isn't true. He ran it, he just couldn't run it the same way its run on modern computers. He had to manually input codes to get an outputted instruction for a move, versus now where the computer just inputs those codes to make moves automatically.
It is impressive how technology has advanced a lot in the area of video games, from going from a simple game to a game that more or less confuses you with reality 😯
What a long, strange trip it's been. While the game itself is dated (literally and figuratively), I always think "From this to Red Dead Redemption II".
Can I run this game on my PC my specs: GPU:none Keyboard:pizza box Vram:3b OS:windows 95 Ram:10 KB monitor stuffed with moldy potato Speakers: Beehive stuffed with honey and 2 dead bees inside it
The dial on the controller turns to adjust the angle the ball will take, and pushing it knocks the ball back, so it's pretty much a matter of angle and timing.
This is really impressive for the first video game ever made. Dang. I could imagine this being on steam right now, or being made into a modern competitive game.
My uncle was nerdy guy, and so was I. And, I always hung out with him. He had a motorhome camper that he turned into a technology room. He had computers in there, a HAMM radio. This was in the 80's. He had an oscilloscope and a controller. Played Tennis for two, and some type of top shooter game. He only had one controller, and you could play two players. So, the other person had to use the wire terminals as a joystick. You had to move the wire terminals near each other to move around, but once you touched the terminals; that was like touching the button. It's been so long I can't remember completely I was 7 to 13 years old. I remember you had to push the terminals together, but you had to do it at the right speed. I think there was a couple other games too, but you put a plastic sheet with the game design over the screen.
You're probably right. Who would waste their time with this, then they could be out shooting tin cans with their Daisy rifle or watching Howdy Doody? Shelve it!
The first was the snappily named "cathode ray tube amusement device" in 1948 there were a few simple ones such as a chess paying program and a noughts and crosses game before this one.
This is so cool, the interesting thing is that all though the graphics dosent exist the physics is actually way better then in later games. I mean not even Atari tennis had physics. Not until Nes did physics come into the gameplay. This looks really fun. Wish i had old radar equipment to play around with.
![Evolution of Video Game Graphics [1947-2023]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RNvYGcgoGcs/mqdefault.jpg)
![Evolution of Video Game Graphics [1947-2023]](/img/tr.png)
I'm still active cranking out retro game videos. Here's a classic arcade game playlist if anyone wants to watch:
th-cam.com/play/PL8395DBBA914F9218.html
Or a general retro game playlist if anyone has a few hours to burn. Just play it in the background and take a peek now and then ;)
th-cam.com/play/PL29Nw7At9Gp0CfAhZ1sibVsAAFsGwFc2K.html
even after Years u are still active!!!!!!!!!
@@alpharazordx1798 Still crazy after all these years.
William Hunter is this the first gameplay video ???
@@Warrior_478 This video features a replica of the original game, recorded in the 80s. Lots of people define earlier systems as video games as well, including CRT Amusement Device made in 1947, and Naughts & Crosses, done on a UK computer in 1952.
@@doteaters og, u r still online
even after 13 years
heard they are releasing dlc for this
Just came out today, turned into a full on sequel. tennis for three.
(I know it's a joke but, the first thing to have DLCs was the Dreamcast in 1998. Ok now you can kill me)
@@JulianR2JG I will do what I must.
*R/WHOOOSH*
Don’t you mean pong
Did it come out yet
Even though this is a super old game, the movement of the graphics was really impressive. I actually want to play this...
I'm pretty sure it's all just behind the screen and the only graphic part about it is the line behind the ball
Jecoconono I'm not a military technician, so I guess it just makes it all interesting to me.
***** all i'm saying is that its not actual graphics its just glowy parts behind a screen and the ball is being tracked to draw a line behind it
that's why im thinking this vid cnt b real.
It is
Looks like the Switch has some competition.
Mason Hoffman ROASTED
@@monicamendez4830 thats what kids say...
@@pantstime4529 pOnG wAs bEttEr tHaN fOrtNiTe
Not going to lie, those game physics are actually pretty good.
That's because the computer used there is also used in computing ballistic missle trajectories.
I know it's very late
@@benzayb13 Thank god they used it to play tennis instead
@@thatguy7155 lol u got that right
@@benzayb13 imagine casually playing tennis and accidentally compute a ballistic missile trajectory
@@spingleboygle ooh shit that would be terrifying I’d be freaking out in the base going “ the hell is your problem we’re are doomed soon and all you can do is play video tennis’s ahhhh.”
This just makes me sit in wonder and think about how far we've come.
The same thing
+Michael Mikey 2 seconds before I read this comment I said out loud "oh how far we've come"
+Michael Mikey Lol but we still published minecraft
James Bone lol
100 years ago people thought you can jump from moon to earth because moon seems to be falt and high...😮
200 years ago you could walk faster than cars.
300 years ago there was no electricity
400 years ago you thought earth is flat
now you can put supercomputer in your pocket, travel around world less than one day you can own car you can get food in fastfood places fews years from now you can go to hotel in space
can't wait for pong to come out so much hype
I know, Right?
youngelink4200 Those games suck! Computer Space is where it’s at.
@@theobserver4214 pfft. What about maze war?! That's the real future!
I been playing pong it was worth the wait
This game better be good I cannot wait for the game the trailer looks amazing I can't wait to play with my friends
It actually seems to have aged pretty damn well. It's simple and precision-based; that sort of gameplay tends to last.
That's a pretty smooth framerate for a 60 year old game.
imagine having a higher frame rate in a 60-year-old game than in a modern, high-graphics title like Cod
@@lazyll_ the difference is COD is more advanced of a game and has more to process. This tennis game has way less. It’s a few lights.
@@dxizzxy3513 ...?
graphics is advanced?
quite literally.. ballistic physics equations here
It's an oscilloscope,ofc it moves like that
@@genericyoutubeusername6462 Ballistic physics equations are really not complicated.
I'm impressed by the fact it actually uses legitimate physics, some games today don't have that
It was on a computer made to calculate the trajectory of ballistic missiles
This is like Pong's forgotten older sibling.
oxo is their elder grandpa
@@ruler_of_everything oxo what?
@@donichiro OXO Was The Real First Video Game, It Was Made Back In 1952, And Was Basically A Digital Version Of Tic-Tac-Toe, Basically, Tennis For Two Is The 2nd Video Game Ever Made, OXO Is The Real First Video Game Ever Made
@@rdo29-q6l oh ok
@@rdo29-q6l Actually Bertie the Brain in 1950 was a thing before OXO (Bertie the Brain was just for a Canadian exposition and got removed soon after), but the Cathode-Ray tube amusement device being the oldest made back in 1947.
Man, the slow fade on the tail is really pleasing to the eye.
Still way better than Medal of Honor: Warfighter
this actually looks like a fun game.
im still AMAZED by how videogames evolved from an electric instrument to litral graphics designing machines
For being the first videogame ever it amazes me how it has very advanced physics and visual effects that were impossible for many retro games
(I'm pretty sure the components used make these graphics easily possible and is probably based on real physical moving pieces getting visualized into the screen)
It was used for ballistic missiles, cause this was built around during the Cold War
There's actually 2 games that preceded this: the Cathode ray Tube Amusement Device (1947), and OXO a tic tac toe game (1952)
They should remaster it
They did. It was called Mario Tennis Aces. ;)
@@doteaters it was a joke
@@Luis_Facil so was that.
@@doteaters what!?!??!!!
@@Luis_Facil You said they should remaster it. I say they did, it was called Mario Aces. You said it was a joke. I said so was that.
sounds so pleasing to the ears
where it all started
Moises Nunez no, this is the first full on video game, but the first video game code was written in 1948, nothing at the time could run it though
Splattt808 what was it about?
@@SeweeTV "Turochamp" by Alan Turing, who invented the computer and considered by many, including myself, quite possibly the most intelligent person that ever lived. His brain was superhuman.
It's much more than just a chess engine though.
The way Turing designed it was he played a game of chess with a fellow programmer at his facility that lasted a few weeks. The reason was so that Turing could mathematically calculate the best move to retaliate against your opponent. It would take him between 15 minutes to a half hour for him to calculate the move, using pencil and paper in a separate room. Then, when he built Turochamp, he programmed the computer opponent to possess all the calculations Turing had made; thus being able to calculate from whatever you do the strategically best solution. It replicates the exact moves he would have made to your moves.
So what makes it so much better than other Chess engines is you're not playing against some computer...
You're playing against Alan Turing.
The most intelligent opponent of all time.
@@MrMarsFargo Alan Turing didn't invent the computer. Depending on how you see it, it was either Joseph Jacquard (who invented a mechanism which could automatically read and execute instructions written in binary), Charles Babbage (who adapted this mechanism to perform mathematical calculations and theorized that a similar device could run computer programs), Konrad Zuse (who invented the first device capable of running computer programs), Jack Kilby (who invented the microchip), or Federico Faggin (who designed the first practical microchip).
@@handsomebrick Right, but he did program the first video game. I don't where this myth nothing could run it at the time came from, that isn't true. He ran it, he just couldn't run it the same way its run on modern computers. He had to manually input codes to get an outputted instruction for a move, versus now where the computer just inputs those codes to make moves automatically.
This is how the awesomeness all started. I love it!
"Captain, how did we let that torpedo hit us!?"
"Because Jimmy on the radar was using it for videogames!"
That's like the air traffic controllers playing Atari Basketball in Airplane!
Still a better love story than Twilight.
+Da Drumma ha ha lol
Twilight of the Gods
Anything is better than Twilight
why isn't it on steam?
+I'm Blue™Spacewar! is on Steam.
not anymore just checked it
I'm Blue™ I
This game (albeit uber-simplistic) still has a better storyline than most Hollywood movies today. :P
The storyline is real life :)
I'm not exactly sure but I believe the patient is having a heart attack
It is impressive how technology has advanced a lot in the area of video games, from going from a simple game to a game that more or less confuses you with reality 😯
What a long, strange trip it's been. While the game itself is dated (literally and figuratively), I always think "From this to Red Dead Redemption II".
With the analog clicks and pops, this is the most mesmerizing thing I've watched in a while. 10/10
Before this
1947: Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device
1947-1958: Chess(Allan Turing)
1951: Nim
1952: OXO / Noughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe)
Nim is upgraded version of the game "Nimatron" Nimatron - is the first video game ever! (1940)
Nimatron (1939)
Man takes our old viewers back
Can I run this game on my PC my specs: GPU:none Keyboard:pizza box Vram:3b OS:windows 95 Ram:10 KB monitor stuffed with moldy potato Speakers: Beehive stuffed with honey and 2 dead bees inside it
Add a paper tape reader to that and you've got it.
William Hunter dude you have had this channel for a long ass time
Indeed
William Hunter DJDJDJSJSKSDKDKELWPWLQQPQ AAAAAAA
ignorant................
WoW amazing graphics
Fantastic. Fascinating, and eerie - this needs to be in a Boards of Canada video!
this is one of the first videos here and its footage of the first video game.
The dial on the controller turns to adjust the angle the ball will take, and pushing it knocks the ball back, so it's pretty much a matter of angle and timing.
Still better than Infinite Warfare
Rogati omg lol 😂
That i can agree on that
Tennis for two the first original classic video game 💚🕹🎮💚💚💚💚🕹🎮💚💚💚💚🕹🎮💚💚💚💚🕹🎮💚💚💚
This is really impressive for the first video game ever made. Dang. I could imagine this being on steam right now, or being made into a modern competitive game.
Still better than cod.
BOBBYS BOYS lol
The Original Video Game > BF > COD
Are you kidding me?
R/woosh
BOBBYS BOYS true lol
Ancient history, brothers. Look how far we've come.
Would you believe this was made as an escapism from reality?
Thank you so much for your wonderful creation, Thomas Goldsmith, Jr.! You helped revolutionized the world of entertainment!
I can't wait till Tennis For 3 comes out.
Dam, 2022 E3 lookin' sick af.
We went from Tennis for Two to Super Mario Party Jamboree!
Me watching this after seeing Ahoy's one hour long documentary on the first video game:
Yeaaaahhhhh, I'm going to need to do some explaining...
Sounds satisfying
I am almost sure the first video game was Doom 2
Ha, good one. I'm sure that an entire generation of people think that's true.
Lol
***** yeah the first video game that actually didn't suck
before watching this vid,i thought that the first video game was pac-man
Bro, now that was funny!!!!!
The physics on this is impressive. Didn't see anything else like that until years later.
So impressive. This guy was a genius !
Its been 70 years and still no DLC update?
Man, the nostalgia.
So William Hunter.
Tennis for Two was the ancestor of all the video game industry....right?
Great graphics! Whens the release date?
Late 2020
i heard they make a dlc of it naned:1 more ball boooiii
@Braydon The Gorilla r/woosh
The way it works, is the button bats the ball back towards your opponent, and the dial increases or decreases the angle of the return.
Super idol
The first arcade game had the best sound effects for tennis
Brooo this game looks fire cant wait for the release!
That looks fun
No paddles, you just push the button to knock the ball back at the right time, at the correct angle, which you turn the dial to adjust.
this unironically looks very fun
The most fun you can have on an oscilloscope.
I've watched this ten times now its just amazing
better than COD Ghosts.
Hell Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Yeah
1959 - 1949 kids : this soo nostalgic
The father of video games.
I love the sound of the buttons!
Even if the graphics and gameplay are "godawful" by today's standards, I wish to play it.
Yep, even playing a replica using the original equipment would be an amazing brush with video game history.
Runs at 60fps and has simple yet engaging gameplay.
How does this 65 year old video game run better than some modern games released in recent years?
una gran pieza de historia!
My uncle was nerdy guy, and so was I. And, I always hung out with him. He had a motorhome camper that he turned into a technology room. He had computers in there, a HAMM radio. This was in the 80's. He had an oscilloscope and a controller. Played Tennis for two, and some type of top shooter game. He only had one controller, and you could play two players. So, the other person had to use the wire terminals as a joystick. You had to move the wire terminals near each other to move around, but once you touched the terminals; that was like touching the button. It's been so long I can't remember completely I was 7 to 13 years old. I remember you had to push the terminals together, but you had to do it at the right speed.
I think there was a couple other games too, but you put a plastic sheet with the game design over the screen.
Sounds pretty amazing. The last game you mention sounds like the Magnavox Odyssey: thedoteaters.com/?bitstory=bitstory-article-1/odyssey
still better then PS4
Wizzy Gamer than*
Thanks :D
*xbone
Cuck
Cole Beshwate No.
***** Yes.
Fucking weeb
1958: just a project
2024: just one of the successful, popular and wealthy industries in the planet
What a long, strange trip it's been.
Ever heard of OXO? What about draughts?
And were not even 100 years into games yet and its already spectacular
Imagine 200 years!
I don't think this whole "Video game" thing is gonna catch on.
You're probably right. Who would waste their time with this, then they could be out shooting tin cans with their Daisy rifle or watching Howdy Doody? Shelve it!
The sad thing is this game is more playable and functional than many computer games made decades later.
wow, ultra realistic graphics, few computers run this game at more than 60 FPS
Thank you for this, I can hear now and 'get' what Andrew Ervin meant in his book as he lauded the sound of playing this device
i cant belive that a 1947 game has a wireless controller
I'm hungry the game itself was originally made in 1958 and what you're seeing is a recreation from, I believe, 1983
this is what scientists do when they invent atomic bombs.
Still better than Fallout 76
this was reproduced in p.e class in brazil
I knew I would see some ahoy fans down here.
The most epic game ever made, PERIOD.
I thought half - life 3 was a first game.
Heh heh.
the first game was released in 1952! this is 1958!
half-life 3 isn't even out yet
+therarehuskyGT S50 (thehuskygamer07 V4) this game right here is called the cathode ray tube game it came out in 1947
That was never made.
You can tell the kid playing this game is a straight sweat. Damn near bout to break his fingers off moving those sticks
Whatever the purpose is I wanna play it!
it's just a little game where you go around a court hitting little lights (supposed to represent tennis balls). But I want to play it too!
0:46
Oooo,you got some veryyy complicated stuff there bro...
I wonder how 1940's kids would react if we could travel back in time and show them Wii Sports...
they would think u an alien :3
Derek Stiles oh my god yes
They’d be more concerned with the bombs dropping on their heads.
So this is where gaming started. We really have evolved
The original video game was actually the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device.
That's not a video game, it's an electronic game.
Aka toy
Yeah but the CRTAD was still a game so yes it is the worlds first game?
That's what it is!
Wilfred Cthulu I'm trying to find footage of it but from what I can read about it, it is not a video game nor digital game and thus you're wrong.
Oh shit...the best HD graphics reso and physics in this primitive videogame I've ever seen...videogame fan here.
GOTY 1958😛
Wow, thanks for posting, I had never seen this one before! What a racket to play! (Uh, pardon the pun...)
I have nothing to add, I just wanted to reply to a thirteen year old comment.
Better Than PS4
This is the birth of an entire new industry, amazing!
this shit was physics based most games now cant even get that right
The first was the snappily named "cathode ray tube amusement device" in 1948 there were a few simple ones such as a chess paying program and a noughts and crosses game before this one.
& there's still no remake of this game yet?!
They made a couple. Here's one:
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;)
William Hunter Shitty graphics, looks pixelated.
This is so cool, the interesting thing is that all though the graphics dosent exist the physics is actually way better then in later games. I mean not even Atari tennis had physics. Not until Nes did physics come into the gameplay. This looks really fun. Wish i had old radar equipment to play around with.
Impressive all started there, and today the guys play with Kinect, in 50 years one large
evoluição, and everything has to evolve further.
Still better than fortnite
is it just me or does it seem like you could play that for hours and never get bored
And somehow game journalists still find this game too hard.