Unsurprisingly, tenured physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory are capable of creating some pretty radical science projects. A group of lab technicians and physicists led by Dr. Peter Takacs are currently working to restore one of the first video games ever created: fellow Brookhaven physicist Dr. Willy Higinbotham’s 1958, oscilloscope-based Tennis for Two.
Sure, the project may lack the high-definition graphics and … um, visible rackets of more modern tennis titles, but you can’t help but respect its gumption. Check out the video after the jump to learn more about the physicists’ pet project — unless you want to continue operating under the assumption that, no matter what anyone says, Halo 2 was the first game ever made. Dummy.
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