The video below shows the PDP-1 that the Computer Science Museum has lovingly restored running some of those, including Spacewar!, an surprisingly sophisticated game from which later classics like ...
Nolan had seen Spacewar! at the University of Utah and decided to commercialize it. He originally pictured a mainframe behind the scenes with coin-operated terminals to play the game, but when ...
But, by most accounts, the first official video game competition was at Stanford University in 1972, which featured players competing in Spacewar. Flash to 1980 and the inaugural nationwide Space ...