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Bertie the Brain

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Bertie the Brain is a 1950 puzzle game developed by Josef Kates.

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بيرتي ذا براينバーティ・ザ・ブレイン大腦伯蒂버티 더 브레인

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Bertie the Brain is one of the first games developed during the early history of video games. It was built in Toronto by Josef Kates for the 1950 Canadian National Exhibition. The four meter (13 foot) tall computer allowed exhibition attendees to play a game of tic-tac-toe against an algorithm, presented by its creators as artificial intelligence. The player entered a move on a keypad in the form of a three-by-three grid, and the game played out on a grid of lights overhead. The machine had an adjustable difficulty level. After two weeks on display by Rogers Majestic, the machine was disassembled at the end of the exhibition and largely forgotten as a curiosity.

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8 thoughts on “Bertie the Brain”

  1. 0
    It would be trivial, but meaningless to simulate the game. The actual physical machine was the relic, a non-solid-state tube-based computer like the more famous ENIAC and Colossus.
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  2. 0
    I really wish that this wasn’t dismantled. It’s a really simple game of tic-tac toe that you could play on some random website, but this was a huge step for gaming,
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    I think that it’s unfortunate that it was disassembled right after being shown to the public. It would be really interesting to see this in some kind of museum today.
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