THE MAINFRAME IN THE ROOM
ALTHOUGH THERE ARE PLENTY of contenders, generally the entry that gets awarded without controversy is 1958’s Tennis for Two.
An astonishing technical achievement, the title suggests something like Pong, but the reality is far grander. Designed by American physicist William Higinbotham, it was built over three weeks using a modified oscilloscope. Whereas has a simple top-down viewpoint, Two is viewed side-on, and has real-time physics, with gravity and inertia shaping the
