My favorite old school game has got to be 1962’s Spacewar! Spacewar! may well be the first true video game ever made. Developed by Steve Russel and collaborators at MIT. This 2-player space combat video game was played on a circular monochrome vector graphics display with “wrap-around” math.
When the Spaceship went off the side of the screen, it re-emerged on the opposite side. Spacewar! was conceived as a sales demo for the pioneering mini-computer, the DEC PDP-1. The game featured two spaceships in the original PvP space death match. The control interface was a thrust control, a fire button, and a rotate left/right control. Spacewar! was open source and shared widely among the…..
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