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Two-player computer games began with tennis in a laboratory

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14 August 2023

Two-player computer games began with tennis in a laboratory

In 1958 in Upton, USA, people lined up on the Brookhaven National Laboratory Annual Visitors’ Day to play Tennis for Two. Invented by Willy Higinbotham, this was the first ever computer game two opponents could play.
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