First Home Computer Game 1975

Written in 1975 by Scott Adams who later started Adventure International, this game was hand coded in assembly language to run on the world's first home built 16 bit computer made by Scott's brother Richard Adams in 1974. See the extoticsciences.com/sa.htm page link shown in the video for still photos and further more details of the equipment and hand coded program for the national semiconductor IMP16 multichip processor.

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[Dillybar777]

first home computer game was in 1972....

[theGPI]

@Dillybar777 For the specific things claimed, this one is first.

[lolzvid]

@Dillybar777 that was VIDEO GAME,not computer...

[theGPI]

@lolzvid Exactly right. - The claim for Scott and Richard Adams is for the first graphics computer game programmed at home on a home built 16 bit computer. There were gaming consoles earlier than 1975, but they were not computers and were not built nor programmed at home.

[RyouRan]

Sorry for the late and perhaps stupid question: is this Alto Trek, or a variation on it?

[theGPI]

@RyouRan - I looked up Alto Trek on wikipedia. Alto Trek is far more sophisicated. There is a game manual pdf link for Alto Trek. I am waiting to here if the author of this game, Scott Adams, ever heard of that. Please see the exoticsciences web page for more details on this game.

[noxvet]

Fucking Clingons

[robbie785]

ooo it's like owning a small fraction of a piece of video of an article of a blog of a submission

please do not mod me into oblivion, i can't find the AC check box.

[LimitedWard]

We've come a long way from letters on a screen!

[wtalkie]

stunning graphics !!

[DeadlyMountainPro]

you should try playing battlefild 3 on this pc. if some how your graphics card supported it youd probbaly get 1 frame per day

[newcoolvid27]

I WANT IT

[theGPI]

@forinner - There wasn't much of an OS. Just a few bytes of code to talk to the tape reader. Most of the memory was taken by the game code. The game code talks directly to the video and keyboard hardware.