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    • 29/01/2004 at 5:27 pm #2956
      Aphra K
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      Ok, this is testing the limits of my sociological brain –

      I am writing something on the history of games and Steven Poole in Trigger Happy attributes the first game to a William Higinbotham at the Brookhaven National Lab in 1958..I’ve no problem with that..but it was on ‘an analogue computer’..

      I dunno..I am talking about ‘digital games’ so strictly I guess you can’t have a digital game on an analogue computer..

      or can you??

      Aphra.

    • 29/01/2004 at 5:45 pm #10444
      Anonymous
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      Aphra

      A conundrum to be sure, but it’s a great story…

      http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham.htm

      I guess it’s not strictly a digital game but it is certainly a computer game. Video game would be stretching it.

      Imagine if he hadn’t done it. We’d all be working for Magnavox!

      Peter

    • 09/02/2004 at 1:20 am #10519
      Anonymous
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      first analog electronic circuits, then digital, next stage: biological computer gaming

    • 09/02/2004 at 11:31 am #10520
      Anonymous
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      http://dcoward.best.vwh.net/analog/

      If you can makes sense of it…….I’ll give you a gold star! ;)

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