TITLE
The Origin of Spacewar
AUTHOR
J.M. Graetz [J. Martin Graetz]
PUBLICATION
Creative Computing
YEAR
1981
ARTICLE TYPE
Postmortem
FROM THE ARTICLE
It’s Kimball Kinnison’s fault. And Dick Seaton’s. Without the Gray Lensman and the Skylark of Space there would be nothing to write about. So most of the blame falls on E. E. Smith, but the Toho Film Studios and the American Research and Development Corp. have something to answer for as well. If Doc Smith had been content designing doughnuts, if American-International Pictures had stuck to beach blanket flicks, if (most of all) General Doriot hadn’t waved money in front of Ken Olsen in 1957, the world might yet be free of Spacewar!
GAMES MENTIONED
Spacewar!
ALTERNATE LINK
Archived Copy @ Internet Archive
PRINT AVAILABILITY
August 1981 (Volume 7, Number 8)