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Please do not a.org/wiki/Oxo] Martin TB 13:14, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- I beleive a bogon attack ate the middle of your sentence.
[edit] Article name
Perhaps we should move this article to OXO as that article is empty, or if not, maybe OXO (game) would be more specific.
Edit: If no-one has any arguments I'll move the page to OXO. -- Quoth 07:01, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] 1947 Computer Game?
User:David Latapie added the following sentence:
- Five years ago (1947), a missile simulation was the very first video game.
We need some verifiable information about this video game. Who made it? Where? On what computer? Also the article needs to be updated if it's true. Right now it says one thing and then contradicts itself in the next sentence. --Mrwojo 02:16, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
- Source is Wikipedia itself:
- There is a big problem in Wikipedia regarding self-consistency. I think this very discussion illustrates very well the problem (nothing personal, Mrwojo; this is a problem I noticed quite some time ago and this discussion just perfectly illustrates it) Reply to David Latapie 17:54, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
- Don't worry, I didn't take it personally. :-) I'm not surprised that an earlier game existed (I think previous revisions of history of computer and video games once said that Ralph Baer invented video games in the 60s or that William Higinbotham did it in 1958). I just couldn't tell if the 1947 statement was correct because it was lacking verifiable information (details and/or source).
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- I too am worried about self-consistency, which is why I commented on the need to update this article to remove the self-contradiction: "OXO is the first known (graphical) game to run on a computer. Five years ago (1947), a missile simulation was the very first video game." Someone is bound to be confused by the inconsistency in those two sentences, just like if we said OXO was the first here and in other articles said that the missile game was the first. (Also, we should cite the patent PDF here rather than Wikipedia.) --Mrwojo 06:27, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
