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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...
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  • Spacewar, Space Wars, or variation, may refer to: Space warfare, war in outer space Spacewar!, a 1962 game for the PDP-1, one of the earliest examples...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    nicknamed "Slug", is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributed video game. Born in...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    hardware for playing history's first game on a minicomputer, Steve Russell's Spacewar! The PDP-1 uses an 18-bit word size and has 4096 words as standard main...
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  • electro-mechanical games of the mid-20th-century and the early mainframe game Spacewar! (1962). The shoot 'em up genre was established by the hit arcade game...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Retrieved 22 March 2011. "Romania ratifies US missile shield agreement". SpaceWar. 6 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2 February 2013. LaGrone...
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  • Several chapters discuss the history of computer gaming, beginning with Spacewar! in September 1961. This paved the way for major gaming companies such...
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    electronic interactive game engineered by William Higinbotham in 1958; and Spacewar!, written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology students Martin Graetz...
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    away with hardware. Developed initially at MIT, the pioneering video game Spacewar! was used to both market and test the PDP-1 computer. According to attorney...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Star-King is a 1991 video game published by Spacewar Simulations Company and designed by Walker Vanning. Star-King is a strategic level game in which each...
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  • 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...
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  • dawn of video games, with their evolution being shaped heavily by it. Spacewar! (1962), one of the first video games ever made, was science fiction-themed...
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    Grumman's Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Sets 33-Hour Flight Endurance Record". Spacewar.com. Archived from the original on 1 July 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2013...
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  • 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...
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    earliest existence of this OTS angle being used in video games was in Spacewar! (1962), written for the DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute...
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    Cerf playing Spacewar! on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1, ICANN meeting, 2007...
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    Japanese tokusatsu movies also influenced one of the first video games, Spacewar! (1961), inspiring its science fiction theme. According to the game's programmer...
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    without being inducted at three. The earliest game to be nominated is Spacewar! from 1962, while the latest is The Last of Us from 2013, both of which...
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  • two players, inspiring several early Western-themed shooter video games. Spacewar! (1962), recognized as one of the first video games, was also the first...
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    digital audio program and what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!). Together with his teacher John McCarthy and other classmates, he was...
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  • Blackjack Supreme Super Mega Sudoku Super Munchers Supercow Supernova 2: Spacewar SuperTux SuperTuxKart Super Wing Commander Electronic Arts 1994 Space flight...
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