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an avid retro-gamer, for quite a long time I've been particularly interested in the history of video games. Even more specifically, a question that I always had is "Which was the first video game ever created?"... So, I started an exhaustive investigation on this subject (and writing this article, the first in a series of articles that will cover in detail all video gaming history).
The question was: Which was the first video game ever created?
The answer: Well, as a lot of things in life, there is no specific answer to that question. It depends on your own definition of the phrase "video game". For example: When you refer to the phrase "the first video game", do you mean the first commercial video game, or the first console game, or maybe the first digitally programmed game? Because of this, I made a list of 4-5 video games that in one way or another were the pioneers of the video gaming industry. You will notice that the first video games were not made with the idea of making them profitable (back in those years there was no Nintendo, Sony [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Microsoft, Sega, Atari, or any other video game company around). In fact, just the idea of a "video game" or an electronic mechanism which was only made for "playing games and having fun" was above the imagination of over 99% of the population of that era. But thanks to this small group of innovators who took the first steps into the video gaming revolution, we can enjoy many hours of fun and entertainment today (not to mention the creation of millions of jobs during the past 40-50 years). Without further ado, here are the "first video game nominees":
1940s: Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device
This is considered (and has been documented) as the first electronic game device ever made. It was designed by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann. The device was developed in the 1940s and submitted for an US Patent in January 1947. The patent was approved December 1948, which also makes it the first electronic game device to ever receive a patent (US Patent 2,455,992). As mentioned in the patent, it was an analog circuit device which used various knobs to control a dot that showed in the cathode ray tube display. This game was inspired by how missiles were displayed by radars in the World War II, and the object of the game was simply controlling a "missile" that should hit a target. In the 1940s it was extremely difficult (for not saying impossible) to show graphics in a CRT display. So, only the actual "missile" appeared on the display. The target and any other graphics appeared on screen overlays manually placed over the display screen. It's been said by many that this game was the inspiration of Atari's famous video game "Missile Command".
1951: NIMROD
NIMROD was the name of a digital computer device from the 1950s. It was created by the engineers of an UK-based company called Ferranti, with the purpose of displaying the computer at the 1951 Festival of Britain (and after some time it was also showed in Berlin).
NIM is a two-player numerical strategic game, which is believed to come originally from the ancient China. NIM game rules are simple: There are a certain number of groups (or "heaps"), and each group contains a certain number of objects (a common starting array of NIM is 3 heaps containing 3 [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 4, and 5 objects each). Each player take turns removing objects from the heaps, but all removed objects must be from a single heap and the amount of removed objects is not 0. The player to take the last object from the last heap loses, however there is a variation of the game where the player to take the last object of the last heap is the winner.
NIMROD used a panel full of lights as a display and was planned and created with the sole purpose of playing the game of NIM, which makes it the first digital computer device to be specifically created for playing a game (although the main idea was showing and illustrating the computer performance [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rather than as a
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