Скачать или смотреть The Creator of the World's FIRST Video Game: William Higinbotham

I've always been fascinated by the history of video games, and take note of how far computer science has come. Today, I'm talking about an early innovator; earlier than the gaming industry itself, William Higinbotham, creator of Tennis For Two in 1958.

If you enjoyed, let me know if I should continue the series!

In the meantime, if you enjoy gaming history, considering checking out the Gaming Fact or Fiction shorts or 30 Second Game Fact shorts:
   • EVERY Gaming: Fact or Fiction Episode EVER  
   • EVERY Random Game Fact From May and June 2025  

0:00 Intro
0:29 Early Life
0:46 Work on Radar
2:09 Work on Manhattan Project
3:26 Work on Tennis For Two
10:00 Work on Nuclear Non-Proliferation
10:50 Outro

Sources:
American Experience. Leaflets Warning Japanese of Atomic Bomb. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...
Brookhaven National Laboratory. (2009). The First Video Game? U.S. Department of Energy. https://www.bnl.gov/about/history/fir...
Lincoln Laboratory. Commemorating The SCR-584 Radar, A Historical Pioneer. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. https://www.ll.mit.edu/impact/commemo...
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2023, September 27). How radar works. U.S. Department of Commerce. https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/dopple...
Sullivan, Ronald. (1994, November 15). William A. Higinbotham, 84; Helped Build First Atomic Bomb. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/15/ob...
Tretkoff, Ernie. (2008, September 22). October 1958: Physicist Invents First Video Game. American Physical Society News. https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2008/09/f...

Pitiful Wikipedia Sources (used for quick fact checks):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-584...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_...

#gaminghistory #documentary #history #computerhistory #gaming #tennisfortwo