Jumpin’ Jehosaphat – Hailing Frequencies for 10/17/17
Howdy folks, and welcome to Tuesday! Sorry I didn’t write one of these yesterdays, just wasn’t in the headspace for it. I’d rather not do anything for y’all half-assed, you …
Archive.org Adds Spacewar! to Historical Software Collection
Archive.org, also known as the Internet Wayback Machine, has for a while now been building an Historical Software Collection that’s been adding all sorts of awesome games we all grew up …
Space Game News 2/5-12/13 Highlights: The Almost Human Edition…
Hey guys, I’m back, kinda! Stiilllll feeling under the weather, but decidedly more human than I have in a week. Yay! To that end, I’m gonna go over the highlights …
Spacey Game News and Deals – 1/7-8/13
Haaaaaaaaaay youuuuu guuuuyyysss! How are ya? I hope y’all are doing awesomely! Me, I’m still under the weather a bit, but feeling better today, so I’ve got a frakton of …
Spacey Gamey People I’m Thankful For
Warning, incoming corniness alert. ;) As Thanksgiving approaches here in the U.S., I’ve been giving thought to who and what I have in my life to be thankful for. In …
Happy 50th Birthday Space Games: A Look at How Far We’ve Come
I recently realized that Spacewar! was first released in 1962, fifty years ago. In looking at the game’s Wikipedia entry, the first operational version of the game was released in …
Space Combat Sim Timeline on The Escapist
Usually this sort of thing would go into the Spacey Snippets, but it’s so cool I thought it deserved a post of its own. The folks at The Escapist have …
Star Trek (1971) – Boldly Going Where No Game Had Gone Before
When I was four (in 1977), I was changing channels on my TV and came across the most beautiful thing I had ever seen up to that point…the U.S.S. Enterprise. …
Spacewar! – The Oldest of Old School Space Games
About fifty years ago, three guys — Martin Graetz, Steve Russell, and Wayne Witaenem — of the fictitious “Hingham Institute Space Warfare Study Group” conceived of a computer program that would be a better demonstration of the PDP-1 than the typical kaleidoscope program that was currently being used.
Space Games are Almost Fifty Years Old?! Damn…
In doing research on all of the space games made for computers, I embarrassingly forgot about the first game, and the granddaddy of them all…Spacewar! (Yes, the exclamation point is …