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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 .
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
Space Colony: Steam Edition was released on April 30, 2015. This version includes a number of exclusive Steam features such as achievements, trading cards, and Steam Cloud for saved games. Also supported are high resolution graphics settings of the previous HD version, allowing players to view their entire colony while playing on a single screen.
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.
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]
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! 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.
Beta gameplay screenshot. Space War 2000 is a first-person shooter with space combat simulation elements similar to Star Raiders, Elite and Wing Commander, where players assume the role of a knight in order to face opponents on space dogfights.