#spacewar

[thejaymo]

COMPUTER SPACE (1971)

"In 1971, a Californian entrepreneur named Nolan Bushnell decided to deliver Spacewar! to the masses. Computer Space—essentially Spacewar repackaged—was the first modern coin-operated arcade game."

SPACE WAR! (1962)

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 installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"the popularization of video games is better traced to Steve Russell, a graduate student who studied at MIT in the early 1960s. Russell is commonly credited for creating Spacewar with the help of collabora- tors. In Spacewar, each competitor controlled a spaceship. The players navigated the ships on a flat plane around a central sun (with simulated gravity) and attempted to destroy each other with missiles. In an interview with a reporter from Rolling Stone magazine, Russell described Spacewar not as a game, but as a way to “simulate a reasonably complicated physical system and actually see what is going on.”

Came across this whilst researching my book. Thought it was cool.

Quotes from Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds by Greg Lastowka (2011) Read more about Computer Space at the Online Museum of play

[wagglewings]

gamer month has arrived

[robnergal-yt]

Spacewar on Debian Linux

Installing the Secret Steam Game you already Own.

[gmrstudios]

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2924 - Charlton's SPACE WAR - Comic Book Sunday for 2302.19. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-2924.html #charltoncomics #spacewar #fifties #sixties #comicbooks #comicbooksunday #sciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5HutvPmSKVxBaClXUd1ugwWQoWdqEE9LrQIY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mindshelter]

walk with me. xina and miguel's decade-long friendship and xina's continued attachment to him extends well beyond feeling a certain protectiveness towards him while they were growing up (though this is true). while one of miguel's first on-panel descriptions of xina is of her "twencen freakishness," there was a period of time where miguel must have fully believed in xina's ideas about the past and optimism for the future. it's clear in the text that he spent years actively engaged in and even enthusiastic about her interests—he majored in twentieth century computers. he references the fly and ben-hur out of the blue, and while he couldn't immediately recognize jfk, he otherwise picks up on xina's historical and political references rather seamlessly, and even responds in kind.

so... of course she loved him. for a while, she had a kindred spirit. if the typical thing to do was scoff at fixations on the past, miguel thought her room was cool. miguel wanted to know her. there used to be a boy that... probably looked at her like a lost puppy and was curious about all the things she cared about. he probably watched all those movies with her, read all those books, and got acquainted with the history the state keeps trying to erase. he probably acted like she hung the moon.

[buildingshitwithcrab]

Chimpbacca, a ThunderCop, and D-4QP

Spacewar three-pack - Spacewar (Arco)

[boygirlctommy]

stumbles out of lore tag covered in blood. what year is it

[sixteenthtower]

Video games! There’s a lot of them! What was the first one? What other games were released in the same year as it? Which of those games is the first Game of the Year? Let’s get into it.

[fictionz]

Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA has one in working order, and they put on demonstrations of SpaceWar! every first and third Saturday of the month.

Digital Equipment Corporation’s PDP-1, 1959. 

It only sold 59 units, but it was one of the most influential computers ever designed, as it had a terminal you sat down at instead of requiring a staff to fiddle with punchcards. All 59 units were sold to academia or smaller buyers, so it encouraged tinkering. 

[likahei76]

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宇宙我称帝了人类称帝了人类自立门户了…威武⋯

[retrocompmx]

Un día como hoy (6 de diciembre) en la computación y videojuegos

El 6 de diciembre de 1961, los ingenieros de Digital Equipment Corporation Steve "Slug" Russell, Martin "Shag" Graetz y Wayne Wiitanen del ficticio "Instituto Hingham" concibieron el juego Spacewars!, con la intención de implementarlo en un DEC PDP-1 en el Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts. Después de que Alan Kotok obtuviera algunas rutinas de seno y coseno de DEC, Russell comenzó a codificar, y en febrero de 1962 había producido su primera versión. Se necesitaron aproximadamente 200 horas de trabajo para crear la versión inicial. Las características adicionales fueron desarrolladas por Dan Edwards, Peter Samson y Graetz. #retrocomputingmx #decpdp1 #spacewars #retrogaming #gaming

[terriblebicho]

Game piracy haters are so funny. I was scrolling down a thread and saw a comment that was like "Ur saying your friend has 'spacewar' in their Steam library?🤨 well, at least now you know what kind of person he is." like, yes??? A supremely based individual, of course.

[anothermonikan]

wu-oh being are annoying on that pong post oh-no, 'Pong isn't actually the first video game :rolling_eyes: it was actually tennis for two in 1958' Tennis For Two was part of a 3 day exhibit and was only playable on an oscilloscope. People didn't have oscilloscopes just lying around. The thing was dismantled after the exhibit was over

The reason why pong is so relevant to the history of video games is because it was one of the first major video games released on one of the first home video games consoles, heck, even the game you can say it copied was on the VERY first home video game console! Because Pong was so so popular as a home video game release it really set the gears into motion for a lot of game developers and game companies to really thrive, we wouldn't have video games at the level we do currently without a success like Pong.

Yes, if we're going by technicality, Pong wasn't the first video game, Pong literally came from an arcade game before it got released on a home console, BUT I feel it's wrong to kind of deny it as being important, it kinda pisses me off cause people are basically saying like 'Um, actually, the first video game was this 3 day exhibit piece and not this copycat that literally changed the trajectory of game development as we knew it' like. what???

Fuck you, happy birthday Pong

[nostaljivideolar]

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[samueldays]

Shadowrun storytime:

In a change from the typical violent crime runs, I (GM) had a fanatic otaku hire the party to find and retrieve the lost final episode of an obscure highschool-dating-monstergirl-comedy-anime so that he could see the protagonist get together with Best Girl at last.

Funny looks were exchanged as everyone considered, on the one hand, job with low risk of violence and something we can do with a clean conscience; on the other hand, low pay, incredibly cringe and maybe bad for their street rep. "Being shadowrunners involves dirty jobs from unsavory types." I joked.

Most of the run was smooth. Search through public record databases, find out who owns the rights to this anime IP, light social engineering to trick an employee into saying where it's stored, case the building where the physical anime tapes are stored in the basement, copy someone's keycard, waltz in and look like you belong, head down to the basement and grab the tapes while the decker loops the videocameras.

The gang decided to go home and watch the anime to check if it's the correct one before delivering to Johnson, and with some vague plans of editing it if the protagonist ends up with the 'wrong' girl.

Plot twist: the season finale double-length lost episode has the high school get retconned as secret tests of character and pre-training for the protagonist to become a spaceship pilot in an interstellar war, all the waifus are dropped, you're watching scifi now! This was the result of corporate Executive Meddling and an attempt to pivot to the spacewar market while dodging the question of which waifu the show's protagonist should end up with. It flopped badly, which is why the whole thing became a lost episode and forgotten IP gathering dust in a basement.

Mister Johnson was not happy about this ending, and had to be gently persuaded to pay the runners for delivering the lost final episode according to contract, it is not the runners' fault that the content was such trash. The party face offered to make it up somewhat by cosplaying as Best Girl from the anime and going on a pity date with Mister Johnson.