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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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