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This is Tennis for Two, created in 1958 at Brookhaven National Laboratory by physicist William Higinbotham
To play, you held a custom aluminum box, twisted a knob to dial in your trajectory angle, and slammed a button to hit the ball
Inside? An analog computer, vacuum tubes, and clicking electromechanical relays calculating gravity and bounce physics in real time
The entire $200B modern gaming industry started as a glowing dot bouncing across an oscilloscope screen
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