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  2. Spacewar! - Wikipedia

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    Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

  3. Spacewar - Wikipedia

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    Spacewar!, a 1962 game for the PDP-1, one of the earliest examples of a video game. Spacewar, a Steamworks integration tool/test game, delivered to developers for games on Steam

  4. Steve Russell (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    Spacewar! on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1, 2007. Stephen Russell (born 1937), [1] also nicknamed "Slug", [1] is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributed video game.

  5. Galaxy Game - Wikipedia

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    Recreation of Spacewar! in Java, with similar gameplay to Galaxy Game. The gameplay of Galaxy Game, like Spacewar!, involves two monochrome spaceships called "the needle" and "the wedge" (though their appearances have been modified for the coin-op version) each controlled by a player, attempting to shoot each other while maneuvering on a two-dimensional plane in the gravity well of a star, set ...

  6. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first consumer video game hardware was released in the early 1970s. The first home video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, and the first arcade video games were Computer Space and Pong.

  7. Star Control - Wikipedia

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    A ZX Spectrum screenshot. Star Control is a combination of a strategy game and real-time one-on-one ship combat game. The ship combat is based on the game Spacewar!, while the turn-based strategy is inspired by Paul Reiche III's 1983 game Archon: The Light and the Dark. [1]

  8. Space War - Wikipedia

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    Space War is a video game cartridge released by Atari, Inc. in 1978 for the Atari Video Computer System (renamed to the Atari 2600 in 1982). The game is a version of Spacewar! , the 1962 computer game by Steve Russell . [ 3 ]

  9. Spaceward Ho! - Wikipedia

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    A February 1994 survey of space war games gave it a grade of A, stating that Spaceward Ho! "drew in many non-wargamer types with the use of clever bells and whistles". [7] A 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game four stars out of five, criticizing the cover art but stating that it "offers a fine 'beer ...