When Games Went Click: The Story of Tennis for Two

On September 20, 2012, I arrived at Brookhaven National Laboratory, a government funded research site once owned by the Atomic Energy Commission. I'd come with Raiford Guins and a film crew from The Vladar Company, to assist with the production of When Games Went Click, a documentary about one of the world's first analog computer games, Tennis for Two.

Most of the filming took place in a spectacular underground lab/bunker. Highlights of the documentary included interviews with Peter Takacs, a BNL phycists who is attempting to recreate the game using original schematics and authentic analog computing machinery; Bob Crease, a philosopher and historian of science from Stony Brook University, and Bob Dvorak Jr., who was very likely the first child to ever play a video game--ever. 

 I assisted with the screenwriting and interviewing for this production, and designed publicity poster. In the fall of 2013, I organized a screening of the piece with NYU Game Center, followed by a discussion with Peter and Raiford. My work on this project is part of my overall contribution as the Assistant to the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection while I was a doctoral candidate at Stony Brook University.