Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner...

Spacewar, Space Wars, or variation, may refer to: Space warfare, war in outer space Doctor Who and the Space War, a 1976 Doctor Who novelization by Malcolm...

original hardware for one of the first video games, Steve Russell's 1962 game Spacewar!. The PDP-1 uses an 18-bit word size and has 4096 words as standard main...

Space in 1971, which took inspiration from the earlier 1962 computer game Spacewar!. In 1972 came the now-iconic video game Pong and the first home console...

available video game. Computer Space is a derivative of the 1962 computer game Spacewar!, which is possibly the first video game to spread to multiple computer...

early era of video games. Galaxy Game is an expanded version of the 1962 Spacewar!, potentially the first video game to spread to multiple computer installations...

of the mid-20th-century, but did not receive a video game release until Spacewar! (1962). The shoot 'em up genre was established by the hit arcade game...

create games for non-academic purposes, leading up to the 1962 release of Spacewar! as one of the earliest known digital computer games to be available outside...

nicknamed "Slug", is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributed video game. Born in...

instances of multiplayer interaction was witnessed with the development of Spacewar! in 1962 for the DEC PDP-1 computer by Steve Russell and colleagues at...

Fred Ford. Initially, the concept was based on the space combat seen in Spacewar! (1962), combined with the action-strategy gameplay seen in Archon: The...

Retrieved 22 March 2011. "Romania ratifies US missile shield agreement". SpaceWar. 6 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. LaGrone...

diskette for the Apple II. Super Invasion/Spacewar (1980) A collection of 2 games, containing Super Invasion and Spacewar; released on diskette for the Apple...

ISBN 978-1-4411-9144-1. Some of the earliest video games, such as the mainframe game Spacewar! (1962) and commercial games based on it like Galaxy Game (1971) and Computer...

two players, inspiring several early Western-themed shooter video games. Spacewar! (1962), recognized as one of the first video games, was also the first...

was an American computer scientist, most famous for his involvement with Spacewar. Saunders joined the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) led by Alan Kotok...

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...

away with hardware. Developed initially at MIT, the pioneering video game Spacewar! was used to market and test the PDP-1 computer. According to attorney...

example of such. The earliest video games, such as Tennis for Two (1958), Spacewar! (1962), and Pong (1972), were symmetrical games designed to be played...

Several chapters discuss the history of computer gaming, beginning with Spacewar! in September 1961. This paved the way for major gaming companies such...

the SDS Sigma 7 mainframe computer with the goal of creating a game like Spacewar! (1962) that could be played with a teleprinter instead of a graphical...

another important title in the history of video games, Spacewar! Written for the DEC PDP-1, Spacewar was an instant success and copies started flowing to...

8 December 2024. "The Historic Beginnings Of The Space Arms Race". www.spacewar.com. Retrieved 8 December 2024. "U.S.-Soviet Cooperation in Outer Space...

physics model, control scheme, and gameplay elements were derived from Spacewar!, Computer Space, and Space Invaders and refined through trial and error...

digital audio program and what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!). Together with his teacher John McCarthy and other classmates, he was...

cosmic voyage." The series influenced the design of the early video game Spacewar!. The 2019 album All Aboard the Skylark by Hawkwind is named after the...

shooters have existed since the earliest days of video games, dating back to Spacewar! (1962); third-person perspective shooting is also featured in its clones...

designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists...

users coded music. He wrote the Expensive Planetarium star display for Spacewar!. Also for the PDP-1 he wrote TJ-2 (Type Justifying Program), the predecessor...

(PDF). man.fas.org. "The Historic Beginnings Of The Space Arms Race". www.spacewar.com. Retrieved November 21, 2024. RBTH; Novosti, Yury Zaitsev, RIA (November...