[Dark Hunter]

SPACEWAR!

Release date: 1962
Original platform: PDP-1 computer
Description (for those who don't know): Two player game. Each player has one ship, which has a limited fuel supply and missile rack. The objective is to destroy the other player's ship, while not being pulled in by the gravity of the central star. Players may use hyperspace to teleport to a random point on the screen, but they have no control over their exit point.
Controls: Player 1                       Player 2
               A- Turn Left                  K- Turn Left
               S- Turn Right                L- Turn Right
               A+S- Hyperspace         K+L- Hyperspace
               D- Move                       :-   Move
               F- Fire                          "-   Fire
 
Play the game here.

Spacewar, we salute you!

[Dark Hunter]

I absolutely refuse to believe that no one is interested in this. NO comments? NO opinions? NO.... anything?

[Deepblue]

Does it really qualify as sim?

[BurntCornMuffin]

I remember this one!  I've got it for my Atari 2600...

[Kosh]

Never heard of it, not really surprising considering it came out 20+ years before I was born.

[ZylonBane]

You've never heard of Space War? Who cares how old you are, that's like never having heard of the Wright Flyer, or the Model T.

/shakes head sadly at your shocking ignorance

[Blue Lion]

Of course I've heard of Mr T 

[NGTM-1R]

I believe you're confusing this and Asteroids, Zylon.

[ZylonBane]

Ummm... no, I'm not. And I can't begin to imagine why you'd think I was.

[Dark Hunter]

Does it really qualify as sim?

Probably not. That was just dramatics in the name of the thread. 

It is the first ever digital videogame, Tennis for Two, which came out earlier, used analog technology, ie it wasn't a program.

[Taristin]

Ummm... no, I'm not. And I can't begin to imagine why you'd think I was.

And I can't imagine why you think everyone should have heard of this game.

[Flipside]

Heh, this was made ten years before even I was born....

First computer game I ever played was Noughts and Crosses on a Pre-286 IBM machine, or possibly a ZX81, can't remember exactly. I do remember this game, oddly enough, it was featured on one of the TV shows about computer literacy that used to be shown by the BBC. I can't remember the name of the show, but it was mostly about the BBC Micro (Surprisingly enough). That was an awesome computer crippled by its own memory

[ZylonBane]

Ummm... no, I'm not. And I can't begin to imagine why you'd think I was.

And I can't imagine why you think everyone should have heard of this game.

I don't think EVERYONE should have heard of it. I merely think that anyone who presumes to have a clue about video games should have heard of it. It is truly one of the major landmarks in gaming history.