The first-ever computer game may have been designed, appropriately enough, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1962 a group of young programmers, fueled by a mutual interest in futuristic science fiction, created "Spacewar"—a game in which two players operate spaceships while firing digital torpedoes at each other. (Technology Review)



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