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Newspaper Article
The Start of Computer Games
2005
Overview
[...]a group of young MIT programmers who just happened to be reading science fiction books about space battle had been itching to test it out. In less than a year, the programmers, led by Steven Russell, produced Spacewar, a game complete with rocket-powered spaceships, missiles, gravitational effects, and even an unpredictable “hyperspace” function. [...]J. M. Graetz added the final touch: a function that made the ship disappear into hyperspace and reappear in an unpredictable place on the screen. At the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, a group of engineers will soon complete the restoration of a PDP-1, which will be exhibited to the public.
Publisher
Technology Review, Inc
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