Spacewar (1962)

Spacewar is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell, in collaboration with Martin Graetz and Wayne Wiitanen, and programmed by Russell with assistance from others including Bob Saunders and Steve Piner. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP1 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After its initial creation, Spacewar was expanded further by other students and employees of universities in the area, including Dan Edwards and Peter Samson. It was also spread to many of the few dozen, primarily academic, installations of the PDP1 computer, making Spacewar the first known video game to be played at multiple computer installations. By Joi Ito from Inbamura, Japan (Spacewar running on PDP1) CC BY 2. 0 via Wikimedia Commons By Joi Ito from Inbamura, Japan (Vint Cerf playing Spacewar on PDP1) CC BY 2. 0 via Wikimedia Commons You can watch the gameplay video her