Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Few people know that even before “Pong”, the first video game was “Computer Space”.

Few people know that even before “Pong”, the first video game was “Computer Space”.

A port of the PDP-1 “Spacewar” game, this was the first commercial coin-op video game in the world!

https://www.technologizer.com/2011/12/11/computer-space-and-the-dawn-of-the-arcade-video-game/

Always had warm place in my heart, since I played this game at Saratoga Lanes Bowling Alley, before Pong game out. In fact, Computer Space was there the night they dropped off the first Pong game (Saratoga Lanes was a test location for Nolan Bushnell).


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