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Staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory built a tennis game on an oscilloscope for the laboratory's public open house, with a net, a ball that arced under simulated gravity, and a control box for each of the two players.
Earlier machines played games of logic. This one simulated physical behavior and asked two people to compete in real time, with enjoyment as the entire purpose and no educational or promotional argument attached. That makes it the closest thing in the 1950s to a game built simply because it would be fun.
