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Computer Space is a 1971 space combat arcade video game. Created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering, it was the first arcade video game as well as the first commerci
Single-player cabinet
Single-player Computer Space gameplay; the player's rocket is near the top-center, with two flying saucers marked by groups of closely clustered dots. On the right side is the player score, computer score, and time remaining.
"Memory board" of Computer Space. Made of discrete logic chips. Diodes at the bottom-right define the graphics of the flying saucer and 4 angles of the player's ship. Two other circuit boards behind the memory board comprise the game logic. The chip markings are obscured, which was not true of all units.
Computer Space control panel
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A video game, computer game, or simply game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown
Computer Space
…by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in partnership as Syzygy Engineering, it was the first arcade video game as well as the first commercially 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 installations…
A Pong-clone console of the first generation at the Computerspielemuseum Berlin
Baer in 2009
Bushnell in 2013
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