This is the World's FIRST video Game | SpaceWar! 1962
This is the World's FIRST video Game | SpaceWar! 1962
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. It was in 1962 when a young computer programmer from MIT named Steve Russell, fueled with inspiration from the writings of E. E. “Doc” Smith, led the team that created the first popular computer game.
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60 year old game… Wow! Also, PARC made the first Ethernet LAN network with windows and mice in 1974