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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