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Game from 1962! Its great!

HedegaardHedegaard
edited September 2014 in Chit chat
Didn't know this existed and such a long time ago too.
Called: Spacewar

It even has gravity and enertia effects.
Simple game, similar to Asteroids.

Runs in a browser, real simple and nice :)

http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/
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  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited September 2014
    didnt know space war existed? Oo

    and it was posted on here a while back i believe
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  • HedegaardHedegaard
    edited September 2014
    Guess I'm not as much a nerd as you smelly melly :p :)
  • slenkarslenkar
    edited September 2014
    I can see why the average person was confused by it, and it wasn't popular.

    Most people probably wouldnt immediately guess the thing in the middle is something that attracts the ships so lots of frustrating deaths from that.

    The thrust is very weak. You can just about influence your direction, that would be frustrating too.

    It is an actual good game though,
    did the arcade have an AI ship?
  • def chrisdef chris
    edited September 2014
    interesting. kind of like asteroids, but minus the asteroids. craft movement reminds me of thrust a bit as well

    I guess this should be played while listening to beatles 'love me do' on youtube for added retro realism
  • mrmessymrmessy
    edited September 2014
    The grandfather of video games. Try to find the documentary "Thumb Candy" that Ian Lee made with channel 4 in 2000. There is a good section in that where he has a look at it running on one of those giant PDP thingy computers that it ran on - if I recall correctly.
    '79:PrinztronicMicro5500> '83:Spec(48K)> '84:Spec+(kit)> '86:Spec128> '88:ST> '90:A500> '93:A1200> '93:SNES> '95:PS1> '99:PC> '02:PS2> '05:Xbox> '12:Xbox360> '14:PS4 XboxLive:messy73, PSN:mrmessy73, YouTube:mrmessyschannel
  • milemile
    edited September 2014
    you have to use your hands, thats like a baby's toy. :-D




    (yes, i will keep using this joke :lol: )
  • guesserguesser
    edited September 2014
    slenkar wrote: »
    I can see why the average person was confused by it, and it wasn't popular.

    I can think of several more obvious reasons for both of those :lol:
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  • VampyreVampyre
    edited September 2014
    guesser wrote: »
    I can think of several more obvious reasons for both of those :lol:

    I was thinking precisely the same thing!
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • VampyreVampyre
    edited September 2014
    slenkar wrote: »
    I can see why the average person was confused by it, and it wasn't popular.

    Most people probably wouldnt immediately guess the thing in the middle is something that attracts the ships so lots of frustrating deaths from that.

    The thrust is very weak. You can just about influence your direction, that would be frustrating too.

    It is an actual good game though,
    did the arcade have an AI ship?
    I believe you're thinking of Computer Space, produced by Nolan Bushnell, which was the first arcade game. It was based on the much earlier Space War, the first ever videogame, that ran on the DEC PDP1 and was created at MIT.
    ZXSR - Speccy Mags Reviews
  • slenkarslenkar
    edited September 2014
    oh yeah computer space, it seems to have different gameplay
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