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Spacewar!

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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. It was later expanded by other students and employees of universities in the area, including by Dan Edwards and Peter Samson. It also spread to many of the few dozen installations of PDP-1s, making it the first video game to be played at multiple computer installations.

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A Spacewar! clone written in Perl with SDL, created as an entry for the SDL Perl Game Contest.
Platforms:None
Stars1
Updated14 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2011
Halted
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A browser-playable, four-player remake of 1962's Spacewar!, first written in Python in 2004.
Platforms:Web
Stars14
Updated10 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2011
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Platforms:WindowsLinux
LicenseGPL2*
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Platforms:Web
LicenseUnknown
Halted
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A solo-built Rust/Amethyst remake of 1962's Spacewar!, made to learn the engine and language.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
Stars6
Updated6 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2020

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