The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) located at the University of Cambridge’s Mathematical Laboratory would be the first computer hardware to host a “game” developed by Alexander Shafto “Sandy” Douglas, a British Professor of Computer Science. The EDSAC was one of the first computers that could be both read and written to with an array of three 35×16 dot-matrix CRTs to display the state of the memory the computer was storing. Though not a video game under today’s definition, it ran on a computing device with an electronic display and is arguably the first “video game.” It was unnamed in 1952 at the time but is now known as “OXO”; a name given…..
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