Debatable (Gaming)

by Claude Errera , Saturday, October 24, 2026, 06:22 (2 hours, 53 minutes ago) @ Kermit

Both your link and mine mention that it's a subject of debate whether OXO meets the definition of a video game. There is no doubt that Tennis for Two was a video game.

According to Wikipedia's Early history of video games page, there were a number of games introduced in the early 50s that predated Tennis for Two. It specifically lists Tennis for Two as "[p]ossibly the first video game created simply for entertainment" - but that introduces a bar that has not been discussed before now. There's nothing in this conversation that required the 'simply for entertainment' feature to qualify. Building a game to show it's possible doesn't make that game any less of a game than building a game 'simply for entertainment'.