Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Spacewar!/archive1
Please check back at the end of the month for the May blurbs. - Dank (push to talk) 15:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the Digital Equipment PDP-1, a minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Players wage a dogfight between two spaceships with limited weaponry and fuel in the gravity well of a star. Saunders built an early gamepad controller for the game. The first video game known to be played at multiple computer installations, Spacewar! was popular in the small American programming community in the 1960s, and the public domain code was widely ported. It directly inspired many electronic games, such as the first commercial arcade video games, Galaxy Game and Computer Space (1971), and later games such as Asteroids (1979). In 2007, Spacewar! was named to a list of the ten most important video games of all time, which formed the start of the game canon at the Library of Congress. (Full article...)
Just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 01:19, 30 May 2020 (UTC)