Spacewar Pioneer Award

Spacewar Developers Honored With Pioneer Awards

By Alex Santa Maria

In the beginning, there was space. This is true of the universe and of video games. The earliest games depicted starfields and spaceships because of technical limitations as much as artistic license. A black screen with white dots handily represented a galaxy of stars, and that’s what led to 1962’s Spacewar. Installed on academic PDP-1 computers at MIT, the game spread to several academic installations. As new…

Alex Santa Maria
Alex Santa Maria

Fan of pinball, Needlers, roguelikes, and anything with neon lighting. Owns an office chair once used by Billy Mays.

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