15 Oct
2008
15 Oct
'08
3:50 p.m.
Except both are computer games, not video games, despite the PR move by some
companies to push them as otherwise. This was already all hashed out in the
courts.
Marty
Quoting Paul_Koning at Dell.com:
Neat. That predates the PDP-1 "spacewar"
game, which I had thought of as the
oldest. And it may still be the oldest video game on a digital computer.
paul
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On
Behalf Of Brent Hilpert
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 4:17 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: article ref to 50th birthday of video games
Old news for many here perhaps, but here's a writeup about physicist William
Higinbotham's creation of "Tennis-for-two" at Brookhaven Labs in 1958:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/15/tech-games.html
Mentions how the initial inspiration came from reading the manual for an
analog
computer and how it could be used for ballistic trajectory calculations.