Know your roots... SpaceWar!
adent42
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This is an HTML5 port of SpaceWar!, often sited as the first graphical video game.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/01/2319227/Futureproofing-Artifacts-Spacewar-1962-In-HTML5
The game's bullets were not affected by gravity because there wasn't enough processing time
It's starfield is based on a real star map (called "Expensive Planetarium" because of the cost of the computer running it).
The program was such a good test of the computer, it was used for internal testing by the manufacturer and shipped with the computer for on-site post-installation testing, most likely making DEC the first company to have employees playing video games on the job!
Fun for the the whole family and an interesting note on how far we've come.
Learn more here! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/01/2319227/Futureproofing-Artifacts-Spacewar-1962-In-HTML5
The game's bullets were not affected by gravity because there wasn't enough processing time
It's starfield is based on a real star map (called "Expensive Planetarium" because of the cost of the computer running it).
The program was such a good test of the computer, it was used for internal testing by the manufacturer and shipped with the computer for on-site post-installation testing, most likely making DEC the first company to have employees playing video games on the job!
Fun for the the whole family and an interesting note on how far we've come.
Learn more here! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!
Comments
If you like that, and Asteroids, may I gently nudge you in the direction of Minotaur Rescue by the lovely Jeff Minter?
Here's the link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minotaur-rescue/id408475782?mt=8
Awesome, AWESOME game for us retroheads!
QS
Edit - and looking up that link made me see that Minotron is also out now! I will be shooting things tonight methinks!