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Spacewar!
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

Colossal Cave Adventure
1976 video game

Zork
Zork is a text adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and split the game into three titlesZorkI: The Great Underground Empire, ZorkII: The Wizard of Frobozz, and ZorkIII: The Dungeon Masterwhich were released commercially for a range of personal computers beginning in 1980. In Zork, the player explores the abandoned Great Underground Empire in search of treasure. The player moves between the game's hundreds of locations a

Rogue
1980 video game

The Oregon Trail
1971 video game

Star Trek
1971 command line computer game

Maze War
1973 video game

Galaxy Game
1971 arcade game
Hunt the Wumpus
1973 text-based adventure game

Space Travel
1969 mainframe video game

Hamurabi
1968 video game

Classic Empire
wargame

The Sumerian Game
1964 video game
lunar lander
video game genre, where the player must portion a limited amount of fuel to land on the moon without crashing

Dungeon
1975 video game
early mainframe games
aspect of history

Robots
turn-based computer game

The Cottage
text based video game