print email comment close Video Games: Did They Begin at Brookhaven? URL: http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/videogame.html Description: "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. Publisher: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Library of Congress Subject Headings: Electronic games -- History Video games LII Database Information: Record 12955 created by Jennifer English on 02/28/2005 Last modification on 03/01/2005 Published: 02/28/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12955