article ref to 50th birthday of video games

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Wed Oct 15 15:41:33 CDT 2008


Paul_Koning at dell.com wrote about Tennis For Two:
> 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.
>   
There was no digital computer involved in Tennis For Two.  It was 
effectively an analog computer
 custom designed for the game.

OXO on the EDSAC may be the earliest known video game on a digital computer.

Eric




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