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The screenshot of the first page of his recollections reads: The Brookhaven TV-Tennis Game by W.A. Higinbotham Some of my friends who subscribe to Creative Computing read an article in the October 1982 issue which credited me with inventing video games. Other friends heard this on the public radio network àbout 6 p.m. on 18 February 1983. This has reconnected me with a number of old friends. Whether or not inventing video games is something to be proud of is another matter. This recent notoriety is due to the fact that I designed a tennis game for two to play, that displayed the court, the net and the moving ball on a cathode ray tube in 1958. Although many hundreds of people played this game at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958 and 1959, it received no publicity then, and it only began to attract attention in the 1970's, when video games became big business.

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The screenshot of the first page of his recollections reads: The Brookhaven TV-Tennis Game by W.A. Higinbotham Some of my friends who subscribe to Creative Computing read an article in the October 1982 issue which credited me with inventing video games. Other friends heard this on the public radio network àbout 6 p.m. on 18 February 1983. This has reconnected me with a number of old friends. Whether or not inventing video games is something to be proud of is another matter. This recent notoriety is due to the fact that I designed a tennis game for two to play, that displayed the court, the net and the moving ball on a cathode ray tube in 1958. Although many hundreds of people played this game at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958 and 1959, it received no publicity then, and it only began to attract attention in the 1970's, when video games became big business.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 15:04:11 UTC Robert McNees
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And here are Higinbotham's recollections, prompted by a 1982 Creative Computing article that called him the inventor of video games.
“Whether or not inventing video games is something to be proud of is another matter.”
https://www.bnl.gov/about/docs/higinbotham_notes.pdf

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