Spacewar!' and the Birth of Video Games

By J.G. Newman Spacewar! (1962) was the first video game the way that Little Richard was the first rock star. Both wrote a fairly complete rulebook for a future worldwide obsession, yet were known to such niche (or, in Richard’s case, unfairly marginalized) audiences that they now play footnote to the Pongs and Presleys of…

Spacewar!' The story of the world's first digital video game - The Verge

The History of the Computer Game Spacewar

New homebrew game for the 1959 PDP-1 computer, a special machine that gave birth to Spacewar! and video games as a whole : r/programming

45 years after first-ever gaming tournament, Seattle museum hosts vintage Spacewar! Olympics – GeekWire

VC&G » Spacewar: Profile of a Cultural Earthquake

10.2 The Evolution of Electronic Games

From the Computer Lab to the Arcade: The Journey of Space War - Paleotronic Magazine

Spacewar! (Game) - Giant Bomb

First Video Game Ever Made: Spacewar! (1962)