William A. Higinbotham
American physicist and electronic game designer
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- In electronic game: From chess to Spacewar! to Pong
For example, in 1958 William A. Higinbotham of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York used an analog computer, control boxes, and an oscilloscope to create Tennis for Two as part of a public display for visitors to the laboratory. Only a few years later Steve Russell, Alan Kotok,…
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