40th Anniversary of Video Games

CFN writes "According to this article in the New York Times (free registration...), this month marks the 40th anniversary of Spacewars, the very first video game ever created! It's very interesting to consider how quickly the popularity of video games grew, because, essentially, Spacewars was spontaneously generated. I guess there is something about blinking lights, flashing colors, and tinny sound effects that just appeals to the soul." Unfortunately, there was no violence before 1952, because we all know that violence is caused by video games. Oh, and I had a great version of spacewars that I used to play on a portable PC (Compaq with like a 5 inch green screen and a wopping 4 mhz!) when I was short. I loved that game.

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Someone did his math wrong...

[Tha_Zanthrax]

* Unfortunately, there was no violence before 1952
* 40th Anniversary of Video Games
And I was thinking we live in the year 2002 right ?!
1952+40 != 2002 last time I check.
Or video games are 50 years old or even in 1962 there was no violence...

Typical /. reader's angle

[noz]

"Oh, and I had a great version of spacewars that I used to play on a portable PC (Compaq with like a 5 inch green screen and a wopping 4 mhz!) when I was short. I loved that game.

"But can it run Linux?"

Play the game here..

[uigrad_2000]

Spacewar (Java)

It doesn't seem to work on my browser. Good luck!