Neat. That predates the PDP-1 "spacewar" game, which I had thought of as the oldest. And it may still be the oldest video game on a digital computer. paul -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brent Hilpert Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:17 PM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: article ref to 50th birthday of video games Old news for many here perhaps, but here's a writeup about physicist William Higinbotham's creation of "Tennis-for-two" at Brookhaven Labs in 1958: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/15/tech-games.html Mentions how the initial inspiration came from reading the manual for an analog computer and how it could be used for ballistic trajectory calculations.