<s>
Gossip	B-Application
is	O
a	O
video	O
game	O
created	O
for	O
the	O
Atari	B-Device
8-bit	I-Device
family	I-Device
by	O
then-Atari	O
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
employee	O
Chris	O
Crawford	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
documentation	O
indicates	O
that	O
Gossip	B-Application
is	O
an	O
Atari	B-Application
Program	I-Application
Exchange	I-Application
title	O
,	O
but	O
it	O
was	O
not	O
listed	O
in	O
any	O
of	O
the	O
published	O
catalogs	O
and	O
may	O
not	O
have	O
been	O
released	O
at	O
all	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Although	O
the	O
social	O
interactions	O
in	O
Gossip	B-Application
are	O
relatively	O
simple	O
,	O
Crawford	O
contends	O
that	O
they	O
are	O
comparable	O
to	O
the	O
level	O
of	O
complexity	O
found	O
in	O
The	B-Application
Sims	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
player	O
uses	O
a	O
joystick	B-Device
cursor	B-Application
to	O
select	O
a	O
character	O
to	O
telephone	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
or	O
she	O
picks	O
up	O
the	O
phone	O
and	O
says	O
,	O
“	O
Air-oh	O
?	O
”	O
The	O
player	O
selects	O
a	O
person	O
to	O
gossip	B-Application
about	O
,	O
and	O
then	O
one	O
of	O
five	O
expressive	O
animations	O
(	O
strong	O
positive	O
,	O
slight	O
positive	O
,	O
neutral	O
,	O
slight	O
negative	O
,	O
strong	O
negative	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Such	O
declarations	O
,	O
Crawford	O
said	O
,	O
were	O
implicit	O
in	O
many	O
pieces	O
of	O
gossip	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
game	O
engine	O
was	O
written	O
in	O
Atari	B-Language
BASIC	I-Language
and	O
took	O
hours	O
to	O
complete	O
the	O
calculations	O
for	O
a	O
single	O
turn	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Two	O
major	O
attempts	O
were	O
made	O
to	O
rewrite	O
the	O
system	O
in	O
assembler	B-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
which	O
reduced	O
the	O
calculation	O
time	O
to	O
a	O
few	O
moments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
two	O
developers	O
that	O
worked	O
on	O
the	O
assembler	B-Language
versions	O
had	O
a	O
different	O
opinion	O
,	O
calling	O
it	O
boring	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Crawford	O
applied	O
a	O
similar	O
social	O
model	O
in	O
Excalibur	B-Application
for	O
the	O
management	O
of	O
the	O
Knights	O
of	O
the	O
Round	O
Table	O
and	O
diplomacy	O
with	O
the	O
other	O
kings	O
of	O
England	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2013	O
Crawford	O
publicly	O
released	O
the	O
source	O
code	O
of	O
several	O
of	O
his	O
games	O
,	O
including	O
Gossip	B-Application
.	O
</s>
