15th April 2003, 10:38 AM
It is totally relevent. When did the first text-based computer game come out? If it had come out before Space War or Tennis for Two, would it have been proclaimed as the first video game? No. The first video games were games that allowed you to manipulate images on a computer or tv screen. You do not manipulate images in text-based computer games. They are still computer games, but technically not video games.