Spacewar!' and the Birth of Video Games

By J.G. Newman Spacewar! (1962) was the first video game the way that Little Richard was the first rock star. Both wrote a fairly complete rulebook for a future worldwide obsession, yet were known to such niche (or, in Richard’s case, unfairly marginalized) audiences that they now play footnote to the Pongs and Presleys of…

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Codi_Tech - Spacewar is a space combat video game developed by Steve Russell in 1962. 🛸👾Created in a university laboratory, SpaceWar was the first game to be developed and then played at

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