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Space Wars is a shooter game released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1977. It is based on the PDP-1 game Spacewar! (1962) but instead uses vector graphics for the visuals. The hardware developed for Space Wars became the platform for most of the vector-based arcade games from Cinematronics.
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; Space Wars, a 1977 vector graphics arcade game; Space War, a 1978 video game for the Atari VCS
Steve Russell, designer and main programmer of the initial version of Spacewar!, with a PDP-1 in 2007. During the 1950s, various computer games were created in the context of academic computer and programming research and for demonstrations of computing power, especially after the introduction later in the decade of smaller and faster computers on which programs could be created and run in ...
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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]
Colony Wars is a 1997 space combat simulation video game developed and released by Psygnosis for the PlayStation. Players complete space combat missions using preselected starfighters equipped with various weapons. The game features multiple paths of missions and outcomes, depending on the player's performance.
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 ...
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] It was released by Sears as Space Combat, for its Atari compatible Tele-Games system. [4]