+Matt Della Oscilloscopes have a much higher update rate. A decent modern one samples at 100 MHz, ones from the 60's were a fair bit slower, around 5 MHz or so. Also the AC is not the power supply voltage. Two signals are being generated all by the controllers + hardware. One signal is making the shape of the tennis court, and a second signal represents the tennis ball as it passes back and forth. The tennis ball moves by increasing/decreasing the phase and amplitude of the signal.
It was. But it was also designed by top engineers on a super computer designed to calculate the trajectory of intercontinental ballistic missiles, while Pong ran bassically off parts from Radio Shack XD.
99.99% of the population does not understand the genius required to create this. The leap forward taken by putting these electronic parts together to create an interactive "game" was amazing. We consumers just use all of this stuff but don't have a clue how it works or how they did it. That is sad. They were geniuses. We owe them a lot.
99.99% is a bit too harsh. Most math and engineering students and electronics hobbyists should be able to generate a vector display on an oscilloscope with relative ease, but most are not interested in such topics. "We consumers just use all of this stuff but don't have a clue how it works" Very true, but not one single person understands how every device or piece of software on the market functions. Specialization of skill and labor is what backs the modern world.
You are right. It wasn't a true stat but more of a generalization I was making about how people don't understand how things work. As far as the guy that thinks I need to feel elite, I actually don't feel elite at all nor do I need to be. I am equal to 1.0 humans just like every other human being regardless of their class or status. Got me pegged wrong there.
This is arguably the first video game for a few reasons. One, OXO didn't have any moving or real-time updating graphics. Two, Tennis for Two was the first game to be created purely for entertainment purposes, whereas OXO was created as part of a thesis on human-computer interaction. Literally a game on a computer, however? Probably not even third, as there was also a draughts program displayed on a CRT (see Christopher Strachey) that was developed around the time of OXO, as well as other chess and checker programs. And technically speaking, earlier than ALL of those, going on the basic definition of a game on a computer, Alan Turing himself invented an extremely simple chess program that used pencil and paper to map out the results (no screen, obviously, and more obviously the computer was terrible). Before OXO there was also Bertie the Brain, a tic-tac-toe simulator that displayed on a grid of lights, and Nimrod, a computer built to play Nim which also displayed the results using lights.
Uhh cathode ray tube amusement device was the first ever video game made in 1947 where as tennis for two was the second one OXO was the third and was never considered the "first"
@@hyakkimarufluff534 There was no practical implementation thiugh. It was never actually made. Only patented. Also it's technically not a video game. It's more of an electromechanical game. It's like the missing link between a video game and a pinball machine.
Gravity is actually super easy to code up (it's just a constant increase in velocity), but this works using a completely different principle than modern game engines as it's analog rather than digital.
@@ganondorfchampin The fact that it works using a different principle than modern game engines, as you said, is what made it surprising to me. I have programming experience, but only with modern digital coding.
@@harasen_haras5 No one really knows how to do analog programming anymore, I guess except maybe engineers trained in control theory. From what I've heard, gravity was also the easy part in this engine, as they just related it to a natural property of the circuits that behaves according to the same function. I have no idea how they did the collisions though, which is also the hard part of modern physics engines.
Being a game developer, I cant help but notice the physics. It's truly ahead of it's time (mostly becase it's analog so the light is literaly going down, not using programming). It's very interesting tho... multiplayer, good phyics and play, analogs infinite resolution to creat a perfect circle... wow
The clicking noise I don't believe is from the handheld controller. It is from relays that affect the direction of the ball. You can tell because the clicking noises are present also when the ball bounces off the floor. You can also see that that ball doesn't exactly bounce off the floor, but at a slight line above it. Meaning there is one beam for the court, and one beam for the ball. For the ball, one of the relays must switch the direction of the beam, when the player clicks. The other relays must switch among capacitors to make the ball rise, and switch among resistors to make the ball drop. I'm missing a few steps, and am totally guessing. But one thing is for certain, is the creativity and experience to pull this off is incredible.
@SkinnierSteve: Not only _Crysis 3_ but also _[fill in latest video-game title here, forevermore]_ because it's like all other video games thereafter, from _Spacewar!_ [1961] to _Pong_ [c. 1972] up through _Space Invaders_ & _Pac-Man_ all the way up to NOW, whether one reads this in the present or future, like all other video-games ever after were contained in _Tennis for Two_ . Err, except the afore mentioned _OXO_ [1952], hm, yeah, I guess they would all be from as if within that one, hm, yeah hehehehehe th-cam.com/video/2rUmdhRPsR8/w-d-xo.html
This game might not be the first, but Pong was almost two decades later! I must say this game looks much more compelling also! I like the idea of having the game sideways instead of overhead, and having the "hit" the ball instead of just positioning the paddle.
To think these are the ancestors to the awesome games we have today. We should always remember and honor their names. Also the sounds is actuall kinda cool and satisfying...I wonder why?
What a neat machine! Good gameplay, decent physics. I'd have preferred to just hear to sound of the relays and the controllers, instead of the music. Love the beautiful oscilloscope dot "ball". When I first saw an Asteroids machine back in the 70s, the bright XY display "bullet" dots always seemed like impossibly cool-looking display magic. No current display technology can produce these kinds of superbright highlights.
Is it just me or is it more satisfying visually that the monitor is circular? Eyeballs aren't shaped like TV screens and neither is our field of vision.
The frame rate and even the graphics are surprisingly nice for for something engineered from 1950's radar equipment... I honestly wouldn't mind playing it today from how it looks. Getting drunk with some friends and having a tournament with this actually sounds like a good time.
The beauty of all that analog, slowly turning digital. Almost like a beautiful hybrid. Must of been amazing to be the first ones to see these. Let alone make them.
I first learned about the game from the old TV show "History's Lost and Found" from back when the History Channel actually tried to teach history. Remember those halcyon days?!
Tennis For Two is like a old version of pong. It's so original and casual, The graphics, the physics everything is old school. But In 1958 Nobody Expected Now In 2018, to be so many good games with improved graphics and physics
How are the physics so good? It's like this is 35 years ahead of it's time! I don't remember seeing physics this accurate and smooth on the SNES or Genesis.
It depends whether you class the missile simulation as a game or not. That wasn't its original intention. If not, OXO is the other contender, as the information says. Obviously Pong is nowhere near the title, being released in '72.
+GamePlayShare After 5 minutes google: www.bnl.gov/about/history/firstvideo.php (At the bottom you find the original schematics) www.evilmadscientist.com/2008/resurrecting-tennis-for-two-a-video-game-from-1958/ (This is NOT the original, but easier because it uses a digital uC)
+GamePlayShare if u understand electrics u can build it in your head. u need cathode tube. when u turn it on u have beem in center. when u bring electricity on left and right shields (polarization) beam will move to one side. with switch u change polarity. with potentiometer u change amplitude or amplifying the voltage
Damn, that's awesome. I thought it would have been even more primitive to the tennis game I made in electronics class that just used traveling LED lights and a couple of IC's across a circuit board. In fact, this was probably crazy as hell to see in the 50's considering it looks far more fun then say, pong! I bet this game gets better FPS than PC games today!! lol
@Mankemacho Just because it doesn't correspond to the current interpretation of line-by-line scanning doesn't mean it's not an image reconstructed, frame-by-frame, from a signal being fed to the oscilloscope.
nah, it's got an update interrupt. THAT aspect is still digital. You can tell this when the ball is hit really hard, it creates a dotted line tracer, which means it's skipping some positions, therefore there must be a finite number of animation frames. qed
The music is 'To Find Our Freedom' by Peacekeepers, from the album 'Message From Planet Earth'. I think you can still get it from the record company's site - just Google it :-)
Actually there are a few electronic games predating this one. OXO (Naughts and Crosses) being the first to have used a graphical display. It was created in 1952.
@@turretgod305You're correct but I had to google it. I had the audiobook so I didn't know how Cline spelled it, Weaton just pronounced it as "Arcade". And don't ever apologise for being right.
To those who say Tennis For Two is a crappy game, grow the heck up! The game is from 1958! What do you expect? Do you expect them to make the game look more modern like games of today? That would be 100% impossible in the '50s! People would consider this game fun back then and so would I. I'm an old school retro game man and I play games from the '70s. I play the Atari 2600, PONG, SEARS Tele-Games, Intellivision, you name it! Yes, I do play modern games every once in a while and I do happen to own a Wii, Wii U, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, don't get me wrong. But I mostly love to play vintage video games out of retro video game consoles, because again I say I'm an old school retro game man and that's who I am. I'm 24 years old and I have a huge passion of retro gaming!
That is sad Wasting money on gaming consoles 1 like = 1 Life If you dont want that then go outside watch some youtube somemovies hangout AND PLAY THESE GAMES Bonk.io Skribbl.io Or Drawthis.io
You're thinking of the "Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device", the patent for which was filed in 1947. Tennis for Two was developed in 1958, and OXO, as you said, in 1952. Tennis for Two was, however, the first to be used as entertainment.
Watching the video, I don't think you can neither win nor lose in this game - However, you can the ball out of the playing field so it respawns. There isn't more to it though as far as I can tell.
Darn! all this time I thought this was the first video/computer game ever. Good try, Dr. Higinbotham; This looked like a priceless step into a new type of gaming that words couldn't define.
It's amazing how compelx Tennis for Two still is. Rember that this machine is all analog. So it takes many switches (the things protected by clear little boxes over them in the video)to make it work. And allow you to play the game with no problems. The amazing thing is that this game is a couple months away for being 50 years old. On a side note: I WANT TO PLAY TENNIS FOR TWO MYSELF!!! Just to see what it's like
Originally I wondered that, and I don't think it matters. You just have to press the button when the ball is on your side and it rebounds from wherever the current position is.
It's up for debate, but they're probably referring to OXO, or Noughts vs. Crosses, which was a Tic-Tac-Toe game that used a similar oscillioscope display. It pitted you against a computer AI and you had to tell it which space you chose (1-9) using a rotary phone dialer. However, first "video" games, ones that used standard TV displays, were designed by Ralph Baer and led to the Magnavox Odyssey, although the first commercial arcade game "Computer Space" was released 6 months before the Odyssey.
No lag and no DLC...
Perfect Videogame xD
+Ultimate History of Videogames Not this time. Analog updates continuously, in real time.
lol no ac is analog. it switches DIRECTION 60 times a second. It still reaches peak to peak continuously.
+harrisonmesko It switches direction 120 times a second (moving both up and down each cycle).
+Matt Della Oscilloscopes have a much higher update rate. A decent modern one samples at 100 MHz, ones from the 60's were a fair bit slower, around 5 MHz or so.
Also the AC is not the power supply voltage. Two signals are being generated all by the controllers + hardware. One signal is making the shape of the tennis court, and a second signal represents the tennis ball as it passes back and forth. The tennis ball moves by increasing/decreasing the phase and amplitude of the signal.
+Dudu Channel Not to mention two people playing in the same room together. I miss those days...
Wow, surprisingly this looks a lot more fun than Pong.
It was. But it was also designed by top engineers on a super computer designed to calculate the trajectory of intercontinental ballistic missiles, while Pong ran bassically off parts from Radio Shack XD.
Pong was fucking trash!
Side view vs top view. Just 1 dimension.
This game sucks
@@eugenetouchgrass1729 why?
No Lag
No toxic fanbase
No Rage Kid
Perfect game
You mean, no fanbase?
@@quadroninja2708
No, there was a fanbase, just 4 scientists
Yeah now play this game and realise it's boring after two mins
@@mehatemochi5776 Back then tho people would play it for hours
@@quadroninja2708 is it illegal to have a fanbase let alone fans at all?
99.99% of the population does not understand the genius required to create this. The leap forward taken by putting these electronic parts together to create an interactive "game" was amazing. We consumers just use all of this stuff but don't have a clue how it works or how they did it. That is sad. They were geniuses. We owe them a lot.
99.99% is a bit too harsh. Most math and engineering students and electronics hobbyists should be able to generate a vector display on an oscilloscope with relative ease, but most are not interested in such topics.
"We consumers just use all of this stuff but don't have a clue how it works"
Very true, but not one single person understands how every device or piece of software on the market functions. Specialization of skill and labor is what backs the modern world.
So we need to understand the work behind the stuff we buy before we buy it? Well, guess I gotta throw all my stuff out the window.
You are right. It wasn't a true stat but more of a generalization I was making about how people don't understand how things work. As far as the guy that thinks I need to feel elite, I actually don't feel elite at all nor do I need to be. I am equal to 1.0 humans just like every other human being regardless of their class or status. Got me pegged wrong there.
Quality comment.
They also added EXTREMELY good sound effects!
As a gamer, if you wanna go play retro games, there's nothing more retro then this one!
It does look very fun.
tails230 Hipster
I really understand and get what you're saying but retro is a very wrong terminal situation
Cathode ray tube amusement device
tails230 draughts
@@Bagel_Le_Stinky that one wasn't made for entertainment purpose
So it's the first game
this game has a better physhic engine than GTA5
ikr
and framerate
yeap
gta 4 has better physhic engine than gta5
Me_ Teck absolutely true
Tennis For Two = TF2
What am I Doing with my life
+Albert Fredericksen TEAM TENNIS TWO
bad joke
Mind = Blown
Half-Life 3 confirmed!
Pootis a dispenser here
Noice
1958? Shit, this actually looks nice. This graphic would hold up on todays standard to!
+Pea G It's not using vector graphics at all. It's all analogue, believe it or not! It does look a little like Vectrex, though.
???
Somebody deleted their reply. I made a bit more sense before...
1958
OXO Is... Kinda better...
This is arguably the first video game for a few reasons. One, OXO didn't have any moving or real-time updating graphics. Two, Tennis for Two was the first game to be created purely for entertainment purposes, whereas OXO was created as part of a thesis on human-computer interaction. Literally a game on a computer, however? Probably not even third, as there was also a draughts program displayed on a CRT (see Christopher Strachey) that was developed around the time of OXO, as well as other chess and checker programs.
And technically speaking, earlier than ALL of those, going on the basic definition of a game on a computer, Alan Turing himself invented an extremely simple chess program that used pencil and paper to map out the results (no screen, obviously, and more obviously the computer was terrible). Before OXO there was also Bertie the Brain, a tic-tac-toe simulator that displayed on a grid of lights, and Nimrod, a computer built to play Nim which also displayed the results using lights.
Uhh cathode ray tube amusement device was the first ever video game made in 1947 where as tennis for two was the second one
OXO was the third and was never considered the "first"
@@hyakkimarufluff534 There was no practical implementation thiugh. It was never actually made. Only patented. Also it's technically not a video game. It's more of an electromechanical game.
It's like the missing link between a video game and a pinball machine.
Strachey's draughts.
Nim was also implemented on NUSSE here in Norway in 1954.
I'm surprised they managed to make a game engine with gravity.
Gravity is actually super easy to code up (it's just a constant increase in velocity), but this works using a completely different principle than modern game engines as it's analog rather than digital.
@@ganondorfchampin The fact that it works using a different principle than modern game engines, as you said, is what made it surprising to me. I have programming experience, but only with modern digital coding.
@@harasen_haras5 No one really knows how to do analog programming anymore, I guess except maybe engineers trained in control theory. From what I've heard, gravity was also the easy part in this engine, as they just related it to a natural property of the circuits that behaves according to the same function. I have no idea how they did the collisions though, which is also the hard part of modern physics engines.
@@ganondorfchampin Either way, it's cool that they managed to do it.
The computer is designed to compute the stats of incoming nuke so meh.
I love the sound the machine makes, and it makes it sound so authentic too, like the ball hitting the racket!
The physics in this game are actually spot-on. Pretty stunning!
Works out of the box. No day one patch. No content locked behind a pay wall. Never below 60FPS. 10/10
2.2 million fps.
Typical oscilloscope :D
No campaign tho.
I'm canceling my pre-order.
CoNiggyFresh It has amazing multiplayer, and it has no DLCs.
It's been 60 years since your pre-order and you still haven't got it? Man you should have cancelled it along time ago
He pre-ordered OXO instead.
@@crazynoob159 and two years since this lpl
lpl
I like how you create your own sound effects by pressing the buttons.
There's something satisfying about the clunk it produces.
Some people on the internet today msy call it ASMR.
I like it too man
That clunk sounds like a tennis racket smackin a ball to me, which is nice.
Relay switches have the best clicks!
Holy shit 13 years ago… how’s it goin man?
Being a game developer, I cant help but notice the physics. It's truly ahead of it's time (mostly becase it's analog so the light is literaly going down, not using programming). It's very interesting tho... multiplayer, good phyics and play, analogs infinite resolution to creat a perfect circle... wow
Imagine the "gamer's thumb" you'd get from this!!
OH GOD NO
youlchers
This is beautiful, I would play this right now 57 years from when it was made
The clicking noise I don't believe is from the handheld controller. It is from relays that affect the direction of the ball. You can tell because the clicking noises are present also when the ball bounces off the floor. You can also see that that ball doesn't exactly bounce off the floor, but at a slight line above it. Meaning there is one beam for the court, and one beam for the ball. For the ball, one of the relays must switch the direction of the beam, when the player clicks. The other relays must switch among capacitors to make the ball rise, and switch among resistors to make the ball drop. I'm missing a few steps, and am totally guessing. But one thing is for certain, is the creativity and experience to pull this off is incredible.
I bet that old computer can run crysis 3 maxed out
SkinnierSteve xD
You would have thought by now from your comment there would be Crysis 4 or something but no.
I am pretty sure that that is not a computer but an oscilloscope
Indeed - an oscilloscope. What amazes me is that the mechanical relay can keep up with the scope trace.
@SkinnierSteve:
Not only _Crysis 3_ but also _[fill in latest video-game title here, forevermore]_ because it's like all other video games thereafter, from _Spacewar!_ [1961] to _Pong_ [c. 1972] up through _Space Invaders_ & _Pac-Man_ all the way up to NOW, whether one reads this in the present or future, like all other video-games ever after were contained in _Tennis for Two_ . Err, except the afore mentioned _OXO_ [1952], hm, yeah, I guess they would all be from as if within that one, hm, yeah hehehehehe
th-cam.com/video/2rUmdhRPsR8/w-d-xo.html
I love the mechanical clicking sound of the controls..... pretty damn awesome to think this game is 50 years old!
62 now :)
This was invented the same year as the hula hoop!
No hula hoop was 1963
Te music fits perfectly to the video.
It was a pleasure to watch.
Since this is the 2nd ever game, the first was "Bertie the Brain" in 1950. A 13ft tall computer that played Tic-Tac-Toe.
this is actually a very fun game and its so simple you dont need fancy graphics
this game
from _1958_
has an advanced physics engine
and performs beautifully
Its cool how these old games can be so simple, yet so fun!
Frankly ... this is amazing!
Physics... Graphics... Smooth gameplay! Come on! Is this 1958 or what?
You guys may think this is cool, but the in-app purchases were a nightmare.
satisfying button noises, no dlc, no lag, perfect game
Jeez. This device was WAY ahead of its time.
Yes, many of the 70's games didn't look any better, try to find a 20 years old game now that looks current.
So the PC Masterrace already had a 60fps game in 1958?
5 millon fps ;) the oscilloscope has 5MHz sampling rate
It's a console, not a PC.
@Li1 SheP But it's a computer anyways.
This game might not be the first, but Pong was almost two decades later! I must say this game looks much more compelling also! I like the idea of having the game sideways instead of overhead, and having the "hit" the ball instead of just positioning the paddle.
To think these are the ancestors to the awesome games we have today. We should always remember and honor their names.
Also the sounds is actuall kinda cool and satisfying...I wonder why?
The music is absolutely relaxing!
What a neat machine! Good gameplay, decent physics. I'd have preferred to just hear to sound of the relays and the controllers, instead of the music. Love the beautiful oscilloscope dot "ball". When I first saw an Asteroids machine back in the 70s, the bright XY display "bullet" dots always seemed like impossibly cool-looking display magic. No current display technology can produce these kinds of superbright highlights.
Is it just me or is it more satisfying visually that the monitor is circular? Eyeballs aren't shaped like TV screens and neither is our field of vision.
Great game, had multiplayer and had zombies, I loved how you could change your characters. 11/10!
The frame rate and even the graphics are surprisingly nice for for something engineered from 1950's radar equipment... I honestly wouldn't mind playing it today from how it looks. Getting drunk with some friends and having a tournament with this actually sounds like a good time.
This...is where everything started
The beauty of all that analog, slowly turning digital. Almost like a beautiful hybrid. Must of been amazing to be the first ones to see these. Let alone make them.
I first learned about the game from the old TV show "History's Lost and Found" from back when the History Channel actually tried to teach history. Remember those halcyon days?!
We've been waiting for this remake for way too long
its amazing how quickly we've advanced in this field. go video games!!
0:47 Is that a transistor!?!?!?!
Это реле.
WHERE IS MY REMAKE, REGGIE?
Tennis For Two is like a old version of pong. It's so original and casual, The graphics, the physics everything is old school. But In 1958 Nobody Expected Now In 2018, to be so many good games with improved graphics and physics
sadly, it is all history now..
How are the physics so good? It's like this is 35 years ahead of it's time! I don't remember seeing physics this accurate and smooth on the SNES or Genesis.
it's beautiful!!
hello and hope someone else gets here and coment of course if youtube is still a thing
It depends whether you class the missile simulation as a game or not. That wasn't its original intention. If not, OXO is the other contender, as the information says. Obviously Pong is nowhere near the title, being released in '72.
Better than battlefield 4.
Don' t try to get some likes, like i had. you failed.
Hey, i dont need some likes.
I was just trolling. Battlefield is an Awesome game. I just wanted to see how people reacted. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Agreed.
Anthony Martial
look at you - top comment hungry maniac
Old OLD school. But that's some really high fps
Is there any schematics available?
Would be nice to try to make it.
+GamePlayShare After 5 minutes google:
www.bnl.gov/about/history/firstvideo.php (At the bottom you find the original schematics)
www.evilmadscientist.com/2008/resurrecting-tennis-for-two-a-video-game-from-1958/ (This is NOT the original, but easier because it uses a digital uC)
+GamePlayShare if u understand electrics u can build it in your head. u need cathode tube. when u turn it on u have beem in center. when u bring electricity on left and right shields (polarization) beam will move to one side. with switch u change polarity. with potentiometer u change amplitude or amplifying the voltage
you need an osciloscope an it cost 1500 dollars
Why oscilloscope? Any cathode tube.
Endermanso
1500? Are you insane? old one costs about 25$
The first video game released was the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device, invented all the way back in the 40s. There was many video games since then.
second ever game?
whats the first?
The Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device.
*****
Haha, the first video game was a first-person-shooter!
***** CRTAD was in '47.
Christopher Gudgeon The first game is "Nim" on special computer "Nimrod"
LerGoat Electronic game is considered a video game
I answered this question earlier in the comments ;-)
The music is 'To Find Our Freedom' by Peacekeepers, from the album 'Message From Planet Earth'.
Damn, that's awesome. I thought it would have been even more primitive to the tennis game I made in electronics class that just used traveling LED lights and a couple of IC's across a circuit board. In fact, this was probably crazy as hell to see in the 50's considering it looks far more fun then say, pong! I bet this game gets better FPS than PC games today!! lol
@Mankemacho Just because it doesn't correspond to the current interpretation of line-by-line scanning doesn't mean it's not an image reconstructed, frame-by-frame, from a signal being fed to the oscilloscope.
Que nostalgia mlk, slc lembrei da minha infancia me arrepiei todo 🤯
OMG Dude nice quickscoping with that sick mouse!
it's like Crysis! but with tennis
I love the sound the switches make on the console.
has someone made a port for this yet? I wanna play this
Have a read of the video info. This game was preceeded by 'OXO', a game by A.S. Douglas.
El progreso... Genial nostalgia...
nah, it's got an update interrupt. THAT aspect is still digital. You can tell this when the ball is hit really hard, it creates a dotted line tracer, which means it's skipping some positions, therefore there must be a finite number of animation frames. qed
As an EE student I know how much work our labs take... this is literally insane that a person could design this with pure hardware.
Actually..... I'm pretty sure it is not *_literally_* insane.
Imagine playing this at midnight, the noise that was going to make
The game is nice besides it's lack of online multiplayer support,
IGN
There's no joystick involved. There is only a rotating dial for angle, and a button to 'hit' the ball.
"9/11 not enough COD" -IGN
+Mike DiLoreto "Too much tennis 7/10"
+Mike DiLoreto They are "COD Fanboys"?
Man, I remember Emo board of IGN.
The music is 'To Find Our Freedom' by Peacekeepers, from the album 'Message From Planet Earth'. I think you can still get it from the record company's site - just Google it :-)
And what do you think is inside a microprocessor? It's exactly the same, just a lot smaller :-)
THAT'S REALLY COOL!! I read about this game as it was the first EVER! in 1958.
Ready Player One brought me here
thats beautiful
Its really impresive how therr is collision. But its VERY impressive how they added ball physics
Does this have destruction like bf4?
Bf : BC2***bf4 doesnt have destruction compared to bad company 2
Actually there are a few electronic games predating this one. OXO (Naughts and Crosses) being the first to have used a graphical display. It was created in 1952.
1958 :')
WOW thats so smooth... you would be hardpressed to find a modern game with such smooth physics nowadays, even in 2d.
well oscilloscopes have a sick frame rate, modern computers naturally can't keep up.
if this wasnt the first computer game,what else?
Spacewars :) by Steve Russell
awsomegamerclanboss Spacewar was created in 1961, three years after this game
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game#Cathode_Ray_Tube_Amusement_Device_.281947.29
OXO, is in the video description, geez
Borna909 OXO
Alright now let's make a VR version of this game
the book " ready player one" by Ernest Cline brought me here
Me too. When Wade went to Arcade. Cool book.
I love this book
awww thats my favorite book ever
@@asmrjunkie6613 wasn't it archaide? im a nerd and pedantic im sorry
@@turretgod305You're correct but I had to google it. I had the audiobook so I didn't know how Cline spelled it, Weaton just pronounced it as "Arcade". And don't ever apologise for being right.
Parents: "you kids are all addicted to these video games, when we were kids nobody ever heard of video games."
Me: "OXO and Tennis For Two."
Better controller than Dualshock 4
@JoltZero No paddles. You just press a button and wherever you point with the knob it will bounce that way.
To those who say Tennis For Two is a crappy game, grow the heck up! The game is from 1958! What do you expect? Do you expect them to make the game look more modern like games of today? That would be 100% impossible in the '50s! People would consider this game fun back then and so would I. I'm an old school retro game man and I play games from the '70s. I play the Atari 2600, PONG, SEARS Tele-Games, Intellivision, you name it! Yes, I do play modern games every once in a while and I do happen to own a Wii, Wii U, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, don't get me wrong. But I mostly love to play vintage video games out of retro video game consoles, because again I say I'm an old school retro game man and that's who I am. I'm 24 years old and I have a huge passion of retro gaming!
That is sad Wasting money on gaming consoles 1 like = 1 Life If you dont want that then go outside watch some youtube somemovies hangout AND PLAY THESE GAMES Bonk.io Skribbl.io Or Drawthis.io
You're thinking of the "Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device", the patent for which was filed in 1947. Tennis for Two was developed in 1958, and OXO, as you said, in 1952.
Tennis for Two was, however, the first to be used as entertainment.
how do you know when you win?
probably won't, thats the magic.
well at least you cant lose
you see now ? a world without losers
***** Who knew?
Watching the video, I don't think you can neither win nor lose in this game - However, you can the ball out of the playing field so it respawns. There isn't more to it though as far as I can tell.
Darn! all this time I thought this was the first video/computer game ever. Good try, Dr. Higinbotham; This looked like a priceless step into a new type of gaming that words couldn't define.
Who is watching in 2022
It's amazing how compelx Tennis for Two still is. Rember that this machine is all analog. So it takes many switches (the things protected by clear little boxes over them in the video)to make it work. And allow you to play the game with no problems. The amazing thing is that this game is a couple months away for being 50 years old.
On a side note: I WANT TO PLAY TENNIS FOR TWO MYSELF!!! Just to see what it's like
*Nintendo left the chat*
Nintendo literally saved the chat when it all went to hell in 1983
The physics for this are surpisingly good, especially with it being made in the 1950s
WHEN DO I GET MY GUN IN THIS GAME?
Originally I wondered that, and I don't think it matters. You just have to press the button when the ball is on your side and it rebounds from wherever the current position is.
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It's up for debate, but they're probably referring to OXO, or Noughts vs. Crosses, which was a Tic-Tac-Toe game that used a similar oscillioscope display. It pitted you against a computer AI and you had to tell it which space you chose (1-9) using a rotary phone dialer.
However, first "video" games, ones that used standard TV displays, were designed by Ralph Baer and led to the Magnavox Odyssey, although the first commercial arcade game "Computer Space" was released 6 months before the Odyssey.