guinnessworldrecords.com— "The first version of "Spacewar!" was developed for the PDP-1 at MIT in 1960." The game link is at the bottom, it says it doesn't work on Windows XP but it worked fine for me.
Dec 26, 2005View in Crawl 4
In 1967 I started working for the company Information International. One of the members of the board of directors of this small company was an MIT professor so we had close ties.In addition, the company rented space in the same building as Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) and through that tie we received some of their serial one new computers... I remember going up through the numbers with the PDP-n series.Spacewar was such a novelty that we showed it to all our customers and even displayed it on the console at trade shows to attract attention even though it had nothing to do with our business.Like kids with their video games today, I probably played it for hundreds of hours till Atari came along and I bought Pong for my kids! Then Superman.... and Spacewars was history.
My Brother would take me to Funway in Batavia, IL. to play this game.<a class="user" href="http://www.funwaybatavia.com/">http://www.funwaybatavia.com/</a>Spacewars was this big box of one of many games they had there.you could set to do all kinds of things like suck you into the middleor repell you from it. you could have the sides stop you or have it so you went from one side and show up on the opposite. They don't have this quarter eater anymore. We use to get stoned out of our minds and get consumed by this monster of a game. The best game that comes even close to this right now is Alien Battlecraft Arena <a class="user" href="http://www.jaibo.net/abarena/">http://www.jaibo.net/abarena/</a>- More than 100 different spaceship components- Five game modes including DeathBattle, Team DeathBatlle, and Fatal Battle- Stunning graphics, including cool explosions and debris- 3D sound with seven music themes- Advanced computer AI- Two unique alien races- Many powerups and bonuses- Realistic space objects such as asteroids, planets, and comets- Randomly generated space background graphics with real space photos- More than 40 weapons- Internet high-score table- Joystick, Gamepad and Mouse support
hackwithramziDec 26, 2005
Needless to say, if you have NoScript enabled, you'll have to enable mit.edu for it to work.
rompom7Dec 26, 2005
No, this was the first game created. Not tennis for two.
willdearbornDec 26, 2005
you mean there were games before half-life 2?
Closed AccountDec 26, 2005
Hell this game is to good to play on XP anyway.
billizmDec 26, 2005
Not frist game ever, but a neat game (for its time) from the begining erra of computer games.
lon3Dec 26, 2005
way better than doom 3
peterinwaDec 26, 2005
In 1967 I started working for the company Information International. One of the members of the board of directors of this small company was an MIT professor so we had close ties.In addition, the company rented space in the same building as Digital Equipment Corp (DEC) and through that tie we received some of their serial one new computers... I remember going up through the numbers with the PDP-n series.Spacewar was such a novelty that we showed it to all our customers and even displayed it on the console at trade shows to attract attention even though it had nothing to do with our business.Like kids with their video games today, I probably played it for hundreds of hours till Atari came along and I bought Pong for my kids! Then Superman.... and Spacewars was history.
rummeyDec 27, 2005
Really hard to play by yourself, try to control both ships and fight for more than 2 seconds
merlinhootJan 2, 2006
My Brother would take me to Funway in Batavia, IL. to play this game.<a class="user" href="http://www.funwaybatavia.com/">http://www.funwaybatavia.com/</a>Spacewars was this big box of one of many games they had there.you could set to do all kinds of things like suck you into the middleor repell you from it. you could have the sides stop you or have it so you went from one side and show up on the opposite. They don't have this quarter eater anymore. We use to get stoned out of our minds and get consumed by this monster of a game. The best game that comes even close to this right now is Alien Battlecraft Arena <a class="user" href="http://www.jaibo.net/abarena/">http://www.jaibo.net/abarena/</a>- More than 100 different spaceship components- Five game modes including DeathBattle, Team DeathBatlle, and Fatal Battle- Stunning graphics, including cool explosions and debris- 3D sound with seven music themes- Advanced computer AI- Two unique alien races- Many powerups and bonuses- Realistic space objects such as asteroids, planets, and comets- Randomly generated space background graphics with real space photos- More than 40 weapons- Internet high-score table- Joystick, Gamepad and Mouse support