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Arcade versions of Spacewar! were released as the Galaxy Game (1971), Computer Space by Nutting Associates (1971), and Space Wars by Cinematronics (1977).
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He got an Engineer degree in from MIT
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Other programmers began making their own version of the game, including features such as space mines.
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In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use.
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• Steve Russell was educated at Dartmouth College from 1954 to 1958.
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• Steve Russell was born in 1937
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• Russell, nicknamed “Slug”,
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The first networked version of this genre was Orbitwar (1974) by Silas Warner on the PLATO network. It included all the features of the original Spacewar! with the addition of a Big Board where PLATO users would await challenges from each other to play.
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• The first networked version of this genre was Orbitwar (1974) by Silas Warner on the PLATO network. It included all the features of the original Spacewar! with the addition of a Big Board where PLATO users would await challenges from each other to play.
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Home versions have appeared for most computer and console systems, with some becoming quite elaborate, such as the Star Control series, introducing a wide variety of gameplay frameworks around the basic one-on-one combat system at its core.
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Atari made two Spacewar games. Space War was an Atari 2600 port of the original with additional options. An Atari Jaguar game called Spacewar 2000 was in development as a 3D update to the original, but was cancelled when Atari abandoned Jaguar support.
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Steve Russell went on to specialize in tools for artificial intelligence research at Stanford University and is currently working at Nohau, a Silicon Valley company that makes computer system debugging tools.
• As of May 2006, there is only one working PDP-1 known to be in existence, at .the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The computer and display were completely restored after two years of work, and Spacewar! is operational -
Senko no Ronde is a modern interpretation of Spacewar!, with a design heavily inspired by versus fighters such as Street Fighter II
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On May 15, 2006, the museum presented The Mouse That Roared: A PDP-1 Celebration Event.[6] The PDP-1 was demonstrated running Spacewar! as well as other programs, and members of the public were able to play the game using makeshift controllers.
• He is 74 years old. He visits video arcades to keep up with the games. -
He get an Engineer degree in from MIT
