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
A Game of Concentration A Game of Concentration A Game of Concentration (also known as Concentration and Hunt & Score) is a video game developed by Atari, Inc. and released in 1978 for the Atari VCS (later renamed to the Atari 2600). It was programmed by Jim Huether, and is a video version of the classic memory game. It was one of a handful of games that used Atari's keypad controllers. The game was released by Sears for the "Sears Video Arcade" under the name "Memory Match". The game is played using a matrix of numbered panels, either 4 x 4 (for 16 panels)