Spacewar is considered to be the most important computer game ever produced on this earth. This first computer game was the brainchild of Steve Russell. It was 1960, (some say in 1962) when this genius from MIT (was he a computer programmer? May be ) invented first computer game in the history, Spacewarm, which needed more than 200 man hours to complete the script.





The first CRT display was a converted oscilloscope used to play SpaceWar.The first trackball (and thus, the first mouse) was a SpaceWar control at MIT. It also is said that Ken Thompson salvaged a PDP-1 and created a new operating system, now called UNIX, so that he could play SpaceWar.





The game idea is an inspiration of E.E. Smiths’ Lensman novel. In the game, two players try to blast each other with torpedos. The mighty sun who is out there in the center pulls the players and the torpedos. The players have to aim torpedos, in such a way so that their route is redirected by the sun’s gravitational force until it hits the other player’s ship. In the process the players have to make it sure that they don’t fall into Sun’s magnetic power.



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