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HOWTO Build a 1958, Oscilloscope-Based Proto-Pong Game

Posted July 16, 2008 8:25 AM

From Boing Boing:

The good folks at Evil Mad Scientist Labs have unveiled their fantastic HOWTO for recreating a 1958, oscilloscope-based proto-video-game called "Tennis for Two," created by a physicist named William Higinbotham "to improve what was an otherwise lackluster visitors' day at the lab."

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