5 Jul
2001
5 Jul
'01
6:16 p.m.
I thought the first game was AD on early CDCs and later on
IBM S/36s?
Peace... Sridhar
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bob Shannon wrote:
> As I understand it, the first video game ever was space
war, written at MIT.
>
> Does anyone here know anything about a port of space war
for the HP2115?
>
According to an unverified source:
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.