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Re:The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion by incanus77 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:37PM (#32792163)
Here’s one example from 1951:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Strachey

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Re:The Collectors Who Save Video-Game History from Oblivion by Someone on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:23PM (#32795032)
There also was a checkers program for the IBM 701 in 1952 (https://history-computer.com/arthur-samuel-biography-history...)

That wasn’t a video game, though. The 701 didn’t have a CRT until 1954, and that was used in a printer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_740)

So, did they ever play each other? Or do we have the programs so that we could let them play each other?

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