Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Tennis Game Patent

Game Apparatus Utilizing a Display Screen

Filed March 4th, 1974

No, those aren’t astonishingly realistic computer graphics for 1974–this patent is for an essentially mechanical Pong-like game that involves projecting a beam of light onto a translucent screen to simulate a moving ball, so I presume that those two tennis players wouldn’t have moved. I’m not sure if this game, designed by legendary toy creators Marvin Glass and Associates, was ever produced.

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