COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1962, Steve Russell at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented Spacewar!, a computer-based space combat video game for the PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1), then a cutting-edge computer mostly found at universities. It was the first video game that could be played on multiple computer installations.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first computer game is generally assumed to be the game Spacewar!, developed in 1962 at MIT (Stephen Russell a.o.). Spacewar originally ran on a PDP-1 computer the size of a large car.

Detailed explanation-3: -Computer’s Screen Inspired First Video Game, ‘Space War’ Steve Russell was the main creator of Space War! at MIT in 1961-the project was one of the earliest digital video games. He tells Robert Siegel how he came up with the idea of battling spaceships as a way to use a donated computer.