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English: Picture of gameplay of Spacewar! (1962), running on a PDP-1 microcomputer
Date
Source Spacewar!, original source code running on a PDP-1 (screenshot itself found at [1])
Author Moral authors: Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell, Wayne Wiitanen, Stephen Russell, Peter Samson, Dan Edwards, Martin Graetz, Alan Kotok, Steve Piner, Robert A Saunders

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Picture of gameplay of Spacewar! (1962)

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1 April 1962

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current15:17, 22 April 2020Thumbnail for version as of 15:17, 22 April 2020633 × 519 (19 KB)PresNUploaded a work by Moral authors: Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell, Wayne Wiitanen, Stephen Russell, Peter Samson, Dan Edwards, Martin Graetz, Alan Kotok, Steve Piner, Robert A Saunders from ''Spacewar!'', original source code running on a PDP-1 (screenshot itself found at [https://dwaves.org/2019/03/06/superretrocomputing-src-probably-the-very-first-computer-game-1962-decs-pdp-1-spacewar/]) with UploadWizard

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