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Board game

You play a board game on screen, a classic or a new design, moving pieces around a board turn by turn. The challenge is the original game's, with the computer as opponent or as a table for online play.

Also known as: digital board game, board video game

This is a basic entry: it has the definition and the classification. Full entries add history, games and a demo.

History

  1. 1952
    Origin

    Christopher Strachey's checkers program, which he first tried to run in 1951 and completed in 1952, is the first known computer game created for a general-purpose computer.

    Early history of video games (Wikipedia)