Over time, Cromemco introduced additional software for the Dazzler, at first on paper tape and later floppy disk, including " Spacewar ! " in October 1976.
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This source :, cited in the article, contradicts the claim anyway, noting that " Spacewar ! " and " Tank " were earlier violent games.
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In the early 1970s, " Spacewar " migrated from large computer systems to a commercial setting as it formed the basis for the first two coin-operated video games.
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While playing " Spacewar " at Stanford sometime between 1966 and 1969, college student Hugh Tuck remarked that a coin-operated version of the game would be very successful.
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Microsoft offered a "'Relatives of Spacewar Warm-Up Challenge "'precursor to the first Dream Build Play, awarding $ 500 USD to the top five entries.
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Today his version of Spacewar can be found at the Computer Museum History Center in Mountain View, Calif ., where it has been restored for play on a vintage Digital Equipment PDP-11.
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"The only money I made from Spacewar was as a consultant for lawsuits in the video game industry in the 1970s, " said one of the game's creators, Alan Kotok.
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It started with a simple computer game called Spacewar and over the next four decades grew into a multibillion dollar industry that spawned music, movies, college courses and now, an extensive exhibition in London.
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The genre's origins can be traced back to " Spacewar ! ", one of the earliest computer games, developed in 1962 and eventually released in amusement arcades in the early 1970s.
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The first computer game, " Spacewar ! ", was developed at Project MAC by Steve Russell, Martin " Shag " Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, and other fans of the Lensman series.
