Alexander Sandy Douglas was born on 21^st May, year 1921 in the capital city of England, London.When he was eight his family moved to Cromwell Road.

He attended the University of Cambridge in 1950 place where he received the chance to prove himself in the field of computers by programming the code for a simple game where a player could compete against a computer.

He invented the first computer game, a version of tic-tac-toe. In 1952, after A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University  of Cambridge on Human-Computer interaction he needed a way to prove his theories, and so he created the first graphical computer game- which was a version of tic-tac-toe, programmed on a EDSAC vacuum-tube computer. He used a model that appeared in 1947. The game was very simple, all that the player needed to do was to play against the computer and the image would appear on the 13*16 pixels vacuum-tube. This game was called Oxo and also Noughts and Crosses, and unfortunately didn’t become very famous because it could only be played because EDSAC was a computer only used in England.

In1953 Douglas spent a year at the University of Illinois Computation laboratory as assistant Professor. In 1955 he became Junior Bursar Of Trinity College.In the autumn of 1957 the Leeds Pegasus computer was installed in the Eldon Chapel on Woodhouse Lane where Douglas set up the Computer Laboratory of the University of Leeds.

Alexander Sandy Douglas is believed to be the father of modern computer games. If it weren’t for him would we still have our computer games nowadays? Can any of you imagine a life without computers or computer games? Of course, many of you could say that there have been times when people lived just fine without technology, and that is very true, but I believe these times are better and easier than those. And besides, computer games are fun.

The story of A.S.Douglas’ life is a story of a man who had the courage to look forward in the future and to try to do something else, something different. As every invention in this world, the existence of the first computer game can also mean the beginning of a very big and important technology field nowadays. These kinds of men are men whom we should admire. This kind of men are men who make us ask ourselves whether we should also do something for this world or not.

The computer games field has increased drastically lately, and the reason is because technology itself evolves very fast, and computer games evolve even faster.

Although we don’t actually know much about this A.S.Douglas, what is clear about him is that he and his Noughts and Crosses game helped improve a lot the technological field and that he can actually be considered the father of the computer games field.