Gossip (video Game)

Gossip (video Game)

Gossip was an experimental video game created for the Atari 400 by Chris Crawford. Crawford wished for games that would simulate aspects of human social interaction, thus creating games with “social challenges” that would broaden the universe of computer and video game genres. He hoped people-games would also appeal to different audiences from the then-prevalent combat-based and sports games. He especially hoped to appeal to women.

Although the interaction involved was relatively simple, he considered it to be to “people games” what Pong was to video games in general. He contends that social interaction modelling in The Sims is equally simple.