Spacewar! - The Strong National Museum of Play

Inducted Year: 2018 No game deserves more credit than Spacewar! for inspiring the modern video game industry. During the 1960s, America was in a fierce space race with the Soviet Union. Computers helped scientists figure out how to boost real-life rockets into orbit, so it’s perhaps not surprising that computers also became the means for modeling interstellar combat. The person most responsible for doing this was Steve Russell. When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acquired a new DEC PDP-1 minicomputer, he set out to create []

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