Source: comicbookcoversBatman #327, September 1980, cover by Joe Kubert
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Source:Seminal computer video game Spacewar lives again
MIT engineering students and faculty this week showed off a simulation of Spacewar on campus and at the MIT Museum to mark the 50th anniversary of the video game’s release. Written by four students in their spare time, the video game influenced how many later games were designed and was part of a broader shift in how people viewed computers.
Spacewar, created on Digital Equipment’s PDP-1 minicomputer, was instrumental in showcasing the graphical capabilities of computers and new modes of user-computer interaction. It also helped showed people that computers could be used for fun, not only serious work.
