TITLE
Down the Hyper-Spatial Tube: Spacewar and the Birth of Digital Game Culture
AUTHOR
Jeffrey Fleming
PUBLICATION
Game Developer
YEAR
2007
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
Harvard mathematician Howard Aiken expressed the opinion in 1948 that no commercial market for computers would ever develop and that only a handful of the complex and delicate machines would be needed by the United States.However, even as he spoke, researchers were dreaming up new ways to refine the hardware, making it faster, smaller, and more reliable. Across the nation’s universities students were ignoring the pronouncements of prophets on high, eager to get their hands on the devices, to take them apart and reassemble them in new and more interesting ways, to make them personal playgrounds for the imagination.
GAMES MENTIONED
Spacewar!
PEOPLE MENTIONED
J.M. Graetz [J. Martin Graetz]
Stephen Russell [Slug]