The first video game

[Adrian Graham]

Hey Marty,

I've never been against further updates to my stories, you've spoken to me
in the past so let me update my pages for future historians :)

Cheers

A


On 15/12/2008 01:47, "Martin Scott Goldberg" <wgungfu at uwm.edu> wrote:

> Actually, Nolan and Ted Dabney's first foray in to video games.  The two
> designed and built it together.
> Always amazes me how Nolan's PR over the years has effectively wiped Ted's
> contributions, and in some cases sought to rewrite history.
> 
> Marty
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adrian Graham" <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 11:26:13 AM GMT -06:00 Central America
> Subject: Re: The first video game
> 
> On 13/12/2008 15:14, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I never knew there was a coin-op Spacewar!
>> 
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/13/tob_computer_space/print.html
> 
> Yep, it was Nolan Bushnell's first foray into video games but didn't get too
> much money because it was too complicated for the 'average' user. From my
> own Atari page:
> 
> " Whilst working at Ampex (creators of the first practical video recorder no
> less), Nolan Bushnell had already created an arcade video game based on
> Spacewar, which was a game written by Steve Russell in 1961 for the PDP-1
> from Digital Equipment. Nolan's version was called Computer Space and it was
> being distributed by Nutting Associates. However, it wasn't as popular as
> he'd have liked (he said you had to read the instructions, and people didn't
> have the patience!)"

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