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Spacewar! Or, the Rise of the Computer Bums

Off the Path from New York to Boston by WSHU

May 29, 202516:53News & Politics

The first widely-played video game wasn’t Pong, or Donkey Kong, or Space Invaders. It wasn’t made by Nintendo or Atari. Instead, imagine a bunch of scruffy young nerds at MIT in 1962, given free rein over the latest comp...

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Spacewar! Or, the Rise of the Computer Bums is an episode from Off the Path from New York to Boston by WSHU. The first widely-played video game wasn’t Pong, or Donkey Kong, or Space Invaders. It wasn’t made by Nintendo or Atari. Instead, im...

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