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Steve Russell - Créateur de SpaceWar! by Erwann Terrier
Behold, the legendary Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1
April in Review
The Site It has been a busy month. I was away for 8 days and have been dealing with elderly parent issues even when I have been home. Then I started a new job mid-month, which is always a huge change and brings its own fresh dose anxiety. And yet, somehow I found time to write 33 blog posts this April. Is my hobby really video games, or is it blogging? Also I managed to keep up the daily post…
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How the First Popular Video Game Kicked Off Generations of Virtual Adventure
A simple contest of sci-fi strategy, ‘Spacewar!’ ushered in what is now a 140 billion dollar industry
In the cultural landscape of 2018, video games are difficult to ignore. Consumers have been drawn to games this year in record numbers, partaking not only of lighthearted multiplayer romps like Fortnite and Overwatch but also emotionally taxing narratives such as the speculative sci-fi odyssey Detroit: Become Human and the sweeping Western tragedy Red Dead Redemption 2. There is a growing mainstream awareness that video games can, and often do, constitute genuine art. The medium is in the midst of a golden age.
Rewind about six decades and the same could not be said. In fact, in 1960, “popular video games” would have been an oxymoron. Programmers with access to the hulking and temperamental computers of the era worked on games here and there, but none had the magic needed to proliferate nationwide. That is, until a group of enterprising MIT students concocted a simple but enthralling program called Spacewar!, which debuted in 1962 on the Digital Equipment Corporation’s PDP-1 machine and promptly caught fire.
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This is a 1978 Space War ROM video game cartridge for the Atari 2600 game system. It has the original box and instruction manual. Programmed by Ian Shepard, it is Atari's updated version of Steve Russel's 1960's Spacewar! game. Cartridge is gorgeous and look barely used. All the grap
Gaming History: The ones that started it all
Gaming History: The ones that started it all
Video games have a very interesting history behind them, including scary coincidences, market crashes, and sales that are mind-blowing in size. This running series attempts to document most of these in an interesting way.
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Spacewar! for the PDP-1
Spacewar! for the PDP-1
Spacewar! for the PDP-1 is now officially the oldest video game I have ever played, thanks to it being brought back to life in an emulator over at the Internet Archive.
The great-grandfather app of many games, including the Space Wars arcade game from the 70s, the emulator simulates as much of the PDP-1 experience as possible, including blinky lights.
Spacewar! Loaded!
Of course, it is raw… and…
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