Spacewar!' and the Birth of Video Games

By J.G. Newman Spacewar! (1962) was the first video game the way that Little Richard was the first rock star. Both wrote a fairly complete rulebook for a future worldwide obsession, yet were known to such niche (or, in Richard’s case, unfairly marginalized) audiences that they now play footnote to the Pongs and Presleys of…

Spacewar!

Spacewar--the world's first computer video game., 1962 (not…

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