{"id":2572,"date":"2009-07-15T06:16:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/document\/early-video-games\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T06:16:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T13:16:42","slug":"early-video-games","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/document\/early-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Early video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis for Two, which you&#8217;ll see in this contribution, is considered as the first video game (not computer game!) ever. It is often seen as a predecessor to the famous Pong which was published by Atari about 20 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis for Two was programmed in 1958 as a highly entertaining piece for a visitor&#8217;s day at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where also the first game for a digital computer, Spacewar!, was created later in 1961.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s2E9iSQfGdg&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s2E9iSQfGdg&amp;hl=de&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","artist":[],"streams":[17],"keywords":[2105,2103,2104],"decade":[5539],"media":[5548,5546],"class_list":["post-2572","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","streams-simulations-and-simulacra","keywords-computer-games","keywords-pong","keywords-video-games","decade-pre-1960","media-text","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}