1952 in video gaming
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Notable events of 1952 in video gaming. See also history of computer and video games.
[edit] Events
In 1952, the first video game ever made, OXO (also known as Noughts and Crosses) by A. S. Douglas. OXO was written for the EDSAC computer. The game was a Tic-tac-toe based game, played against the computer, and although OXO never gained any real popularity, because the EDSAC was available only at Cambridge, it was still a milestone in the history of video games.
Christopher S. Strachey created a program on the Ferranti machine which, by the summer of 1952, "could play a complete game of draughts (checkers) at a reasonable speed". Arthur Samuel built on his work to make a checkers-playing program for the IBM 701, which ran at the end of the year.
[edit] Births
- November 16 - Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of The Legend of Zelda, Mario, and Donkey Kong.
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