Game Profile: OXO [The First Video Game]
Welcome to the very first game profile. Today's game is OXO, and unlike what some WRONG people may say, OXO was the first video game. Tennis for Two isn't the first video-game to the dismay of many wrong people, this is.
Basic History:
OXO was developed by Arthur Shafto "Sandy" Douglas. Douglas made the game for part of his thesis on human computer interaction at the University Of Cambridge. This was one of the very first times you could interact with a computer, and it would interact back.The game was really just a very crude electronic game of noughts and crosses, or tic tac toe. It was programmed on an Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator or EDSAC in 1952. EDSAC was one of the first stored program computers, with data that could be read from or written to. It had three small cathod ray tube screens to show the state of the data. Douglas repurposed one of the screens to show the state of the game, and the other two would show the computer data. Which meant the University of Cambridge had an EDSAC computer lying around with three screens, two with data, one with a game of noughts and crosses.
Trivia:
After the game was played, the program was discarded, but was later reconstructed by Douglas.
It is ACTUALLY the first video game.
Douglas did actually get his PHD from this project. Not only did he get a PhD, he invented video games.
Gameplay:
Have you ever played tic tac toe? Well, Imagine tic tac toe, but each move takes super long to register with the computer. But, keep in mind this is the 50's, so this experience is mind blowing.
This is a really good post. I learned a lot.
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