How did computer games come about?

Answer 1

Computer games have been around as long as computers themselves.

I remember back at the 1982 world's fair, playing tic-tac-toe against a computer, but games go back even further than that.

Some of the first "multi-player" games were "Core Wars", played on the mainframes at colleges.

Chess, checkers, and tic-tac-toe have been used to learn basic strategy programming.

Some of the early commercialized games, such as "Zork" and "Hunt the Wumpus", and pseudo Artificial Intelligence games such as "Eliza" have been around as long as I can remember.

Of course, the model used in "Dungeons and Dragons" Role-playing games, tracking statistics and using dice rolls have evolved into today's games such as Pokemon, Final Fantasy, and other RPG's.

So, in other words, as long as there has been some sort of computer, people have found a way to play a game on it.