History of video games
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The history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts In
A collection of home and handheld video game consoles at the Computerspielemuseum Berlin
Spacewar! is credited as the first widely available and influential computer game.
The Magnavox Odyssey, the first home console
Pong clones like the APF TV Fun (pictured) over-saturated the market in the late 1970s.
Spacewar!
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Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the newly insta
History of video games
…history of video games began in the 1950s and 1960s as computer scientists began designing simple games and simulations on minicomputers and mainframes. Spacewar! was developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) student hobbyists in 1962 as one of the first such games on a video display. The first…
Steve Russell, designer and main programmer of the initial version of Spacewar!, with a PDP-1 in 2007
Picture of gameplay of Spacewar! on a PDP-1. The moving spaceships and missiles leave trails behind them because the phosphors in the CRT monitor slowly fade after being lit.
Spacewar controllers built in 1972 by Robert Saunders, similar to the original ones from MIT