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Spacewar!

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    In electronic game: From chess to Spacewar! to Pong

    Martin Graetz, and others created Spacewar! (1962) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This game began as a demonstration program to show off the PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) minicomputer donated by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to MIT and the new Precision CRT Display Type 30 attached to it. This…

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electronic shooter games

  • Screenshot from the electronic game Doom.
    In electronic shooter game

    …really began in 1962 with Spacewar!, a software program developed to show off the power of the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1 minicomputer. The game included stellar objects that generated gravitation fields, which two players had to take into account as they maneuvered their spacecraft while shooting at each other and…

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