Wednesday, May 20, 2015

the first computer game

 computer games are fun,really fun  but do you know when the first computer game was invented ? well  In 1952, A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge on Human-Computer interraction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on a EDSAC vaccuum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube display.
William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. His game, called "Tennis for Two," was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented  Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game.

the picture below represent a recreation of the original Tennis For Two constructed for the 50th anniversary of the game's first appearance .


In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase. Ralph Baer was then part of Sanders Associates, a military electronics firm. Ralph Baer first conceived of his idea in 1951 while working for Loral, a television company.

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