Spacewar! - PDP-1 - One of the First Video Games (MIT 1962)

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Spacewar! (1962)
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Made by Steve Russell on a PDP-1 minicomputer at MIT, Spacewar! is one of the first video games, in fact the first fully interactive video game. It was designed to show off the power of the PDP-1, entertain fellow students, and get the chicks!

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Spacewar! Statistics For The Dot Eaters

The Dot Eaters currently has 587,771 views spread across 1 video for Spacewar!. Less than an hour worth of Spacewar! videos were uploaded to his channel, less than 0.05% of the total video content that The Dot Eaters has uploaded to YouTube.