• Thumbnail for Spacewar!
    Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner...
    45 KB (4,891 words) - 11:29, 12 September 2024
  • 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...
    2 KB (298 words) - 13:40, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steve Russell (computer scientist)
    nicknamed "Slug", is an American computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, well known for being the first widely distributed video game. Born in...
    6 KB (400 words) - 11:19, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Computer Space
    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...
    39 KB (4,975 words) - 12:22, 8 September 2024
  • 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...
    62 KB (6,168 words) - 20:26, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Galaxy Game
    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...
    23 KB (2,846 words) - 04:58, 30 April 2024
  • 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...
    17 KB (2,086 words) - 20:26, 15 September 2024
  • 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...
    61 KB (6,619 words) - 20:08, 25 August 2024
  • 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...
    52 KB (233 words) - 07:50, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for PDP-1
    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...
    27 KB (2,549 words) - 00:05, 28 August 2024