Great news for anyone interested in video gaming's roots. I feel about as excited as I did learning about the colour copy of A Trip to the Moon. https://ahopeful.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/wander-1974-a-lost-mainframe-game-is-found/

Mainframe game?
Does that mean it ran on these old gigantic mainframe computers??

Yup.

yes
thats how far we have come
from mobidic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOBIDIC to the ipad

I didn't even know there were games for those dinosaurs ^^

most "stone age" games were done on mainframes
space war http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar_%28video_game%29
tic tac toe
tennis for two ( well that was done with an oscilloscope )
and wander

also air
decwar
star trek
baseball and more

see here [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mainframe_games]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mainframe_games[/url]

I find it quite surprising that nobody has created an entry on the wishlist yet :p

Cool news! Thanks, Jimmy.:)

Interesting find ^_^

If I remember correctly, the original "Pong" was created on an oscilloscope:

Tennis for Two

uh yeah
thats what i said

Oh crud, you did say that! I don't know why it just didn't register when I went through your list. I'll slap myself silly now.

What is cool about it though, is that you didn't need one of those newfangled "main frames" to play it. :)

One other thing, most space games I play these days remind me very much of Tradewars 2002 back from the good old BBS days.

you did come up with a link though
tennis for two and tic tac toe are the first 2 actual video games

and now we got super computers in our pockets

There was a day I would say "who would want to use a computer to play tic-tac-toe" and it ended up being one of the first games I made for HTML. :)

...and those "supercomputers" in our pockets really blows me away. They're more powerful than the indie computers of the late 70's and 80's and can even emulate the early era PCs.

OK, now the fun stuff. My company decided they wanted to make a "mobile" application. After digging into the roots a bit, I found that they actually had a DOS version of their software (well before I started working there), managed to get a .ZIP file with the DOS product, then copied it to my phone. I set up a quick profile for it on my Android versions of DOSBox and was able to run it.

I took it to my boss and said, "look, we have a mobile version already!" It was good for a few laughs. :)

well they are super computers
they are as capable as laptops and dekstops and can do almost everything they can they are only slower
but they can play videos music surf the internet and who knows what more ?

and they can play video games i got crazy taxi on my ipad and it just blows my mind that a dreamcast game can be played on an ipad
and the dreamcast is a second generation 3D console