Early history of video games

English computer scientist (1912–1954)

German-born American inventor and engineer (1922–2014)

Spacewar! is a space combat video game developed in 1962 by Steve Russell in collaboration with Martin Graetz, Wayne Wiitanen, Bob Saunders, Steve Piner, and others. It was written for the newly installed DEC PDP-1 minicomputer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After its initial creation, Spacewar! was expanded further by other students and employees of universities in the area, including Dan Edwards and Peter Samson. It was also spread to many of the few dozen installations of the PDP-1 computer, making Spacewar! the first known video game to be played at multiple computer install

1958 sports video game

1952 video game: naughts and crosses simulator

American physicist (1910–1994)

special purpose computer that played the game of Nim

American video game programmer and designer (born 1937)

1947 video game

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1950 video game

1969 mainframe video game

British computer scientist (1916–1975)

1968 video game

thumb|upright=1.2|The 1952 game between Turochamp (White) and Alick Glennie (Black). After 29 moves, White is one pawn up but about to lose its Pin (chess)|pinned Queen on the next move. Therefore, White resigns.

1964 video game

German-born physicist and computer scientist

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