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70 year old video games?

• mftb 4y ago
  You're correct, that's likely a mistake. They should have said sixty.
  • tomcam 4y ago
    Checkers from 1952 so... 70 years
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    • mftb 4y ago
      I forgot about analog, I was thinking of Spacewar in '62.
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• incanus77 4y ago
  Here’s one example from 1951: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Strachey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Strachey
  • Someone 4y ago
    There also was a checkers program for the IBM 701 in 1952 (https://history-computer.com/arthur-samuel-biography-history-and-inventions https://history-computer.com/arthur-samuel-biography-history...) That wasn’t a video game, though. The 701 didn’t have a CRT until 1954, and that was used in a printer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_740 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_740) So, did they ever play each other? Or do we have the programs so that we could let them play each other?