The First Video Game: OXO

[ZeroPhoenix7497]

still better than black ops

[CaptnMorshu]

THIS is Crysis 2's grand-grand-grand-grand-father­.

[lightknight22]

Wow! Thanks for the link, I was trying to find an emulator!

[Raynor9X9]

A strange game.

The only winning move is

not to play.

[MrSkullsz]

so ur trying to tell me that the first video game ever had a windows OS?

[Xtremeracer635]

@MrSkullsz If that's supposed to be funny, it isn't and if it's a genuine question, than let me quote from the video description: NOTE: This is from an EMULATOR on a Windows Vista PC, it is NOT from the original machine so it is not a completely accurate representation of the original game. In other words, the game never ran on Windows in reality when it was made, but since I don't happen to have the original machine sitting here, the emulator gives a rough idea of how the game worked.

[nawaryoussef1]

@Xtremeracer635 The first game ever is written by A.S.Doglas in Cambridge when he make his Ph.D and the game was programmed on EDSAC vacuum-tube mainframe computer.

[Xtremeracer635]

@nawaryoussef1 No way, so the first video game ever happens to be written for the EDSAC computer, the very computer OXO runs on which was written by A.S Douglas. That's is a serious coincidence there don't you think or maybe next time don't restate the obvious and pretend like the video description didn't already reveal this.

[GameGirlReviews265]

@MrSkullsz it was invented in 1952!!!!

[ynonn1000]

better than wii sports...

[Nealgamez]

actually the first video game was made in 1947. It was called the Cathode ray tube Amusement Device

[Xtremeracer635]

@Nealgamez And it's debatable whether it was a VIDEO game, Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device didn't have graphics at all, it used lights and overlays to convey it's graphics and the same applied to NIM on the NIMROD computer.

OXO was the first game to actually draw digital graphics on a screen and coincidentally was also the world's first stored computer program. Since it actually drew graphics on a screen it at least better meets the idea of a VIDEO game but people can debate on this for ages

[GameDependable]

No lag :D

[awesomecdiperson]

Oh so its tic tac toe right?

[artman40]

This game shows that you don't need to reference older video games to be game of the year.

[M1XART]

I`m allways failed to find good opponent these days on this game, but i think it should be played that you would get 5 to win, and o would have one opportunity to play even, if in case the x would get the fife first.

[davidjl1234]

Does the emulator work for Windows 7? Just wondering...

[Xtremeracer635]

In my experience anything that ran on Windows Vista (this video was created running the emulator on Windows Vista) will run in Windows 7, at a later date though I will test the emulator myself on Windows 7 just to double-check.

[kingbernam]

I thought Tennis for Two but this IS the actual first video game. Lol I did a project on Tennis for Two xD. Description says it all, This video game wasn't really popular until Higinbotham made Tennis for Two that did get popular. But in conclusion, Tennis for Two was the first 2 player video game.

[atariboy1]

this is something different than halo and bioshock!

rofle... this wil never sell of you bring it out these days exept for the pong and computer fans!

[artieroo]

Actually, I'd say this is more the first 'computer' game rather than a videogame, as it doesn't even use a screen.

[theif519]

I thought Pong for the Atari 400 was the first game ever...

[Xtremeracer635]

The Atari 400 wasn't announced until 1978 and wasn't widely available till November 1979, 26 to 27 years after OXO and 20 to 21 years after Tennis for Two, two decades is a bit of a gap.

Even the Magnavox Odyssey was out before the Atari 400 in 1972 and was the first home video game console so how in the world could the Atari 400 have any game that was the first game ever. Even Magnavox beat it to the plate by 6 to 7 years.

[superbloody24]

@theif519 the odessy was the first ever console

[Telonelemon3]

We must have gotten realy far in life because everyone plays this on paper.

[pearlmax]

LAME. TFT actually looks fun.

This may be the first game ever. But it's the first shitty game ever.

[playnite]

the first video game was a tennis game isnt it ??

[Xtremeracer635]

As I mentioned in the video description OXO was released in 1952, 6 years before the more widely thought first video game Tennis For Two or "tennis game" as you call it.

[daveincognito]

Well, I learned something. Thanks for posting this!

[randyownd]

tic tac toe version 1.0

:D

[Snuffomatica]

Set it to "Number of players: Zero" and watch us approach and then return from the brink of nuclear war. ;)

[Rentacondoinmanila]

Just my opinion:

Cathode-Ray Tube: Was only patented, never built (at least no proves)

NIMROD : first ELECTRONIC game ever built (also first game with AI)

OXO: First VIDEO game

TENNIS FOR TWO: First Action VIDEO game

Flaminio.

[ApoX312]

1952 you needet a supercomputer to play this game XD

[ps3ownsxbox360elite]

wow things have really evolved because now we play that on paper xD

[pludrpladr]

ooooooh how is that possible? :O it takes enormous brainpower to figure out how to take a paper and make nought and crosses 8O (joke)

[Vi2Tibian]

nice!

xD

[adegamisoumounopano]

it for sure has better graphics than the wii.

[adampilotf22]

lol

and also

lol adegamisoumounopano

[brandonrofled]

u rrock

[dopinhimer]

Definitally.

[NaruhinaXSasusaku]

This is sort of cute :)

Though,it looks sort of hard to use,unlike Tennis for Two

[Luca90099]

like Tic Tac Toe

[rudeydudey05]

It would be cool to see it running on the EDSAC, well think it was the EDSAC that first compiled the game, cool emulator...

[LyndonSoulGroove]

Not sure, as with any claim about history yuo have to know where your souce is taken from ! , note the gane uses a mouse, now though the mouse was invented 40 years ago, it only became used " on mass in about mid to late 1980's ) after the 1st video game

[Xtremeracer635]

In the description, I specifically stated this was done using an emulator on a Windows PC, that's why you see a mouse. In reality, no mouse was used in the original game but this video is shown so people can get a basic idea of what the game involved and how it worked.

[DiabloDave363]

Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device is the first game. though it is debatable to call it a "video" game it is the first electronic game. this of wat i found is the second. BUT the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device was simulated missles firing at a target. no tic tac toe

[Xtremeracer635]

There is great debate since the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement device didn't actually have digital graphics, it used screen overlays and analog signals to make the game appear, it didn't have real graphics as it was impossible at that time to draw digital graphics. The same applies for the NIMROD computer as it used a panel of lights for displaying the game. OXO was the first game to use a digital signal and a digital display, producing true graphics.

[rodrigoaal18]

loading please wait... the video games getting better but that shit is forever

[PsychoSpiritomb]

INNOVATION

[samilsam]

i just read and i found the video thanks

[videogamehistorian]

This was NOT a video game because it did not generate video signals. It only used the features of vector displays to simulate a game. Of course this looks like a video game, only it isn't due to the nature of the technology used, even on a computer. Still, this was a remarkable precursor which deserves a nice place in the history.

[recklessness1987]

no video signals?

are you BLIND?

[bjeah]

It does output a moving image to an oscilloscope. Video games output moving images to televisions. There is no VIDEO involved in video games either (except in cut-scenes).

What about video games using vector displays, such as the Nintendo Virtual Boy? Wouldn't you call them video games?

Calling computer games for TV "Video Games" was just an excuse to make it easier to sell computer-TV consoles to stupid parents who only knew what a video-player was.. Something you hook up to a TV.

[Koolkitties]

How can you define a video game? I mean, I think it's anything that uses interaction with a computer to play some sort of game.

[great112211]

I'd define video game as any thing that you have to have a screen for, keep your eyes open, and use some part of your mind. this could be considered one.

[gerodinis]

@videogamehistorian

By the same reasoning, all text-based games should not be considered video games.

[BadNinja16]

@videogamehistorian Yes it did,

the lil screen on the left was some kind of radar , but whic is suposte give a screen (and it did)

So tech it is a videogame

[Dangitalltoheck]

Edsac PWNAGE!

[f0rgotmyname]

looks more like a computer program

[Xtremeracer635]

If you read the description, it was clearly mentioned this isn't a perfect representation of the game since it's run on an emulator on a Windows Vista PC. It's main purpose is to show how the game was played and how it worked not what it exactly looked like.

[SalameeQueijos]

wow!

[erase1945]

oxo soon 'll revenge!! the second gaming generation begins!!

[xonthebond50]

cool