Higinbotham was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and grew up in Caledonia, New York. His father was a minister in the See more

During World War II, he was working at Los Alamos Laboratory and headed the lab's electronics group in the later years of the war, where his team developed electronics for the first atomic bomb. His team created the bomb's … See more

In the 1980s, critics and historians began to recognize the significance of Tennis for Two in the development of video games. In 1983, David Ahl, who had played the game at the Brookhaven exhibition as a teenager, wrote a cov… See more

• The Dot Eaters entry on Higinbotham and his Pong precursor
• Who Really Invented The Video Game? an editorial by John Anderson from "Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games" Vol. 1, No. 1 / Spring 1983.… See more