Video game:Sega Dreamcast Virtua Tennis

While sports games in general are an extremely popular and influential genre in the electronic games industry, tennis plays a very special part in its history. Tennis for Two, one very of the first electronic games, was created in 1958 by physicist William Higinbotham. The game displayed a rough design of a tennis court, and players selected the angle of their racket using a knob and pressed a button to swing. Higinbotham designed the game for visitors to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, and used it as an interactive way to demonstrate the power of his computer, which could track ballistic missile trajectories.

Electronic sports games are some of the most intuitive to play, as even non-gamers tend to know the rules, which made them prime targets for some of the earliest video games. Early home consoles such as the Atari, ColecoVision, Intellivision and the Magnavox Odyssey all contained a grouping of sports games, and later consoles like the Dreamcast continued the trend.
Released in 1999, the Dreamcast was Sega's last video game console. The Dreamcast was packed with innovative, cutting-edge technology considerably ahead of its time, a trait common to most Sega systems. Cancelled in 2001, Sega continued to produce games for the Dreamcast through 2004, with some independent games released as late as 2005. Named by Popular Science magazine as one of the most important and innovative products of 1999, the Dreamcast continues to have a cult following today.

The Dreamcast included several notable firsts. It was the first system to have a built-in modem. It supported VGA output to computer monitors and HDTV two years before anyone else. Its processor was the first to break the giga-barrier for floating operations per second. It also utilized a proprietary Giga-CD for both improved content and copy protection. Amidst great buzz, the initial sales of the Dreamcast rivaled the opening weekend of Star Wars: Episode I.

Unfortunately, the release of the PS2 demonstrated that brand-name superiority trumped technological sophistication. With the release of the X-Box and the GameCube in 2001, Sega closed production of the Dreamcast. However, there remains a community of hackers who continue to program free "home-brew" games for the Dreamcast.