Names for the number 0 in English no authoritative evidence that there has ever been any such word in Scots in the first place. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first use of the word "love" in English to mean "zero" was to define how a game was to be played, rather than the score in the game itself. Gambling games could be played for stakes (money) or "for love (of the game)", i.e. for zero stakes. The first such recorded usage quoted in the OED was in 1678. The shift in meaning from "zero stakes" to "zero score" is not an enormous conceptual leap, and
Tennis (1981 video game) comebacks from the brink of defeat" and which give "more methodical players a chance to taste victory against the kings and queens of hand-eye coordination". Covered in "Video" magazine's 1982 Guide to Electronic Games, "Tennis" was characterized by critics as "not terribly complicated" but also as "one of the few very good sports games for the Atari VCS". Tennis (1981 video game) Tennis is a video game for the Atari 2600 developed by Activision co-founder Alan Miller and published by Activision in 1981. "Tennis" offers singles matches for one or two players; one player is colored pink, the other blue.