A profile of the inventor of the first video game, William Higinbotham, who developed Tennis for Two in 1958. Physicist William Higinbotham invented the first video game, Tennis for Two, at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island in New York in 1958, though he has rarely been recognized for his achievement.Mar 10, 2012 read more
Higinbotham decided to create a game—Tennis for Two, and despite of the fact, that he had only two weeks for this purpose, he managed to make it, with the help of two of his colleagues—David Potter and Robert Dvorak Sr. read more
William Higinbotham was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. He also has a place in the history of video games for his 1958 creation of Tennis for Two, the first interactive analog computer game and one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display. read more
Higinbotham was recognized as the inventor of the video game following a 1976 lawsuit involving Magnavox. Higinbotham's game was also recently recreated at Brookhaven Lab, and it was exhibited there in 2008 on the 50th anniversary of its invention. read more