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Video Games: Did They Begin at Brookhaven?
"The following account, written in 1981, tells how a Department of Energy research and development program led to the pioneering development of video games." Includes a video clip showing the "Tennis for Two" video game that was developed in 1958 by William Higinbotham at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html

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