What is the world first PC Game
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Spacewar! was the first computer game.
Sources:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_videogames.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_game
http://www.jesperjuul.net/thesis/2-historyofthecomputergame.html
Sources:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcomputer_videogames.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_game
http://www.jesperjuul.net/thesis/2-historyofthecomputergame.html
Jup, Spacewar is the first one ever, Pong was actually the first CONSOLE game =)
And no, I didn't Google it actually, I did a huge paper about all this stuff 2 years ago, or was it last year? Anyway, I remembered these nice-to-know stuff, don't ask me much moreabout it though cause that would mean digging up that paper =)
And no, I didn't Google it actually, I did a huge paper about all this stuff 2 years ago, or was it last year? Anyway, I remembered these nice-to-know stuff, don't ask me much moreabout it though cause that would mean digging up that paper =)
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It really depends on your definition,
Wikipedia:
"The earliest known interactive electronic game was created by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube[3] in 1947"
Electronic game or video game with graphics?
Wikipedia:
"The earliest known interactive electronic game was created by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube[3] in 1947"
Electronic game or video game with graphics?
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See Spacewar was made in 1961, I think theres one earlier than that:
WIKIPEDIA!:
On May 5, 1951, the NIMROD computer was presented at the Festival of Britain. Using a panel of lights for its display, it was designed exclusively to play the game of NIM; this was the first instance of a digital computer designed specifically to play a game.[4] NIMROD could play either the traditional or "reverse" form of the game.
SRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game
Thats assuming you don't count the one on a cathode ray tube, which you probably wouldn't since all it could do was a dot.
My argument for the NIMROD computer is that it was specifically designed to play the game NIM - the whole computer is actually a game, however it was programmed to run that game, hence it's a computer game, just not in the normal sense where it could do more than one.
So obviously I'm going 10 years before Spacewars and going with NIM, since it needed the exclusively built computer, and it's a game. Computer, Game. Not a Personal Computer game though, but it probably was the first actual computer game that was more than a dot on a ray tube
WIKIPEDIA!:
On May 5, 1951, the NIMROD computer was presented at the Festival of Britain. Using a panel of lights for its display, it was designed exclusively to play the game of NIM; this was the first instance of a digital computer designed specifically to play a game.[4] NIMROD could play either the traditional or "reverse" form of the game.
SRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_video_game
Thats assuming you don't count the one on a cathode ray tube, which you probably wouldn't since all it could do was a dot.
My argument for the NIMROD computer is that it was specifically designed to play the game NIM - the whole computer is actually a game, however it was programmed to run that game, hence it's a computer game, just not in the normal sense where it could do more than one.
So obviously I'm going 10 years before Spacewars and going with NIM, since it needed the exclusively built computer, and it's a game. Computer, Game. Not a Personal Computer game though, but it probably was the first actual computer game that was more than a dot on a ray tube