Game Groups > Spacewar! variants
Variants of the original Spacewar! 2D space combat simulator, inspired by the Lensman fiction of E. E. "Doc" Smith, first implemented through the efforts of members of the MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club on a campus PDP-1 in 1962, and among the very first computer games.
Trivia
Space War 2000
Space War 2000, was in production for the Atari Jaguar. This update of the "first computer game" was unfortunately never finished, and the prototype was eventually distributed by B&C Computervisions.
Trivia contributed by Zack Green
Related Groups
- Games pulled from digital storefronts
- Genre: Fixed-screen shoot 'em up
- Genre: Scrolling shoot 'em up
- Historical conflict: Napoleonic Wars
- Merchant / Trade-oriented games
- Setting: Space station / Spaceship
- Sound engine: AIL/Miles Sound System
- Space Invaders variants
- Star Trek variants
- Warhammer 40,000 universe
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Title | Released |
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Spacewar! | 1962 |
Spacewar | 1969 |
Computer Space | 1971 |
Galaxy Game | 1971 |
Star Trek | 1972 |
Orbit War | 1974 |
Space War Game | 1976 |
Spacewar | 1976 |
ECD Micromind (included games) | 1977 |
Space War | 1977 |
Space Wars | 1977 |
Star Cruiser | 1977 |
Space War | 1978 |
Space War | 1978 |
Space Fight | 1978 |
Space War | 1979 |
Space War | 1979 |
Spacewar | 1979 |
Space War | 1983 |
Spacewar | 1985 |
Space War | 1989 |
Rocket Rangers | 1990 |
Star Control | 1990 |
HarshGame | 1991 |
Starduel | 1991 |
Spacewar for PC | 2002 |
Space Battle | 2004 |
Computer Space Simulator | 2005 |
Spacewars! | 2006 |
Star Control | 2007 |
Andy's Notepad: Chapter One - Saucers | 2012 |
Spacewar! | 2021 |