Friday, October 3, 2008

Tennis for Two: Fifty Years of Video Games

Yep, that is not a typo...Brookhaven National Lab is sponsoring a special Arcade Showcase where you can play Tennis for two, a video game created in 1958. Here is a video to give you an idea of the game play.


That is a very old oscilloscope they are using for a screen (it looks a lot like the old oscilloscopes we used for various potentially destructive experiments when I was an undergrad).

The event takes place on October 24th at BNL which is on Long Island. I will have to challenge Scott to a game next time I visit there.

7 comments:

drewzepmeister said...

Congradulations,hale! This is the 500th post on this site.

hale-bopp said...

Wow...I wasn't even paying attention to the count...on to 1,000!

drewzepmeister said...

That's the spirit,hale!

kkdither said...

I went back to do the counting this morning and saw that drew beat me to it...

Congrats hale!!!! Thanks for all your posts. I love reading them. I love learning from them. Wish we had a prize for number 500. I guess the best prize is that we had 500 fun posts to read from such good friends.

We have to come up with something for the 1000th blog... Lizardmom? Another task for your list? Maybe we will hit that mark by our next holiday get together?

kkdither said...

Ha ha ha... I just watched the video. Do we really need 2 minutes of that video to get it?

It is much more basic than the pong game I first had back in in the late 1970's.

OrbsCorbs said...

Pong is the last video game that I played.

Chrispy said...

i love pong! i actually played it recently on abc.com. Their new show, Life on Mars is set in the 70's, when Pong was popular. http://abc.go.com/primetime/lifeonmars/index?pn=computergame