First computer game - 1961 links here

Raion · May 15, 2002, 16:52

SpaceWar: (1961)

About the first computer game:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_...00/1464171.stm

First computer game back in 1961 - info page (instructions):
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/...ar/readme.html

Two kilobytes in length, play it here:
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/...ar/readme.html

Avoid the Black Hole! (and shoot the missiles on the rocket to hit the other rocket or maybe be pulled into the black hole!

((Redone for modern computers and play by Java Applet online))

Mathematical computer game, not like now - engineered! (I'm not sure what that means)

AVOID THE BLACK HOLE!

It's gravity!

Raion · May 16, 2002, 02:50

Oops! Here's the link to the first computer game:

http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/...ects/spacewar/

Raion · May 16, 2002, 03:54

Lore:

The Origins of Spacewar:
http://www.enteract.com/~enf/lore/sp.../spacewar.html

Raion · May 24, 2002, 14:45

I played it, and it is fun although short.

But back at that time............................

In a Black Hole, far, far away.
Well, I swung around the Black Hole a few times, ended up in the Black Hole numerous times, and ran out of fuel, and just moved around the screen, out of control, out of fuel, dead in 'space'.

What fun!