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Notable events of 1952 in video gaming. See also history of computer and video games.
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.
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| By generation | First generation (1972-1977) · Second generation (1976-1984) · Video game crash of 1983 · Third generation (1983-1992) · Fourth generation (1987-1996) · Fifth generation (1993-2002) · Sixth generation (1998-2006) · Seventh generation (2004-) |
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