On Wed May 30 10:12:31 AM, Ken Sumrall wrote:
> Heh, it all depends upon which "first game" you count from.
Indeed.
[Spacewar!, Tennis for Two and OXO notes snipped]
Let's not forget the "first" "video game" patent.
On Jed Margolin's web site is US patent #2,455,992, titled _Cathode-Ray
Tube Amusement Device_ by Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., et. al. that was
submitted on January 25, 1947 and granted on December 14, 1948.
The link is here:
http://www.jmargolin.com/patents/2455992.pdf
Also fun to mention is Leonardo Torres Quevedo, who invented a chess-playing
automaton, an electromechanical device with a vertical chessboard, that
played a KRK (king and rook vs. king) endgame. This was demonstrated at the
Paris World's Fair in 1914.
(ref: Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort, p. 76.).
See http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1799 for pictures.
Cheers,
Zube
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