What is Spacewar!?
{{italictitle}} [[Image:Spacewar1.png|thumb|The ''Spacewar!'']] '''''Spacewar!''''' is one of the first known [[video game|video games]]. It was released in 1962. It was made by [[Steve Russell (computer scientist)|Steve Russell]] and others. In this game, the player has to shoot the other [[spaceship]]s while flying around a [[star]]. The spaceships [[shoot]] [[missile]]s ([[rocket]]s) which were unaffected (nothing happened) by the [[gravity]]. Each spaceship had only a few missiles and only a little bit of [[fuel]]. The [[hyperspace]] could be used to avoid being hit by a missile but the spaceship would reappear at a random place. The more the player used hyperspace, the bigger the chance that the spaceship would [[explode]]. {{video-game-stub}} [[Category:Multiplayer video games]] [[Category:Science fiction video games]] [[Category:Video games developed in the United States]] [[Category:Video games released before 1970]]