Space War?

From: Vance Dereksen <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Jul 6 08:00:29 2001

My point was that AD was a computer game, and a lot of people played it on
teletypes.

Peace... Sridhar

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Mike Cheponis wrote:

> A question is: was SpaceWar on the PDP-1 the -first- video game? Clearly
> there had been CRT output devices on computers before the PDP-1, but did
> anybody write any games for them?
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Wayne M. Smith wrote:
>
> > SPACEWAR: n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by
> > E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships
> > duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and
> > jumping through hyperspace. This game was first implemented on the
> > PDP-1 at MIT in 1960--61. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of
> > the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant
> > of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a
> > scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became {{UNIX}}. Less
> > than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialized as one of
> > the first video games; descendants are still {feep}ing in video
> > arcades everywhere.
>
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