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3521873 No.3521873 [Reply] [Original]

Is this a contender for the best videogame of all time?

>> No.3521880

Can I emulate this?

>> No.3521943

of course not. it's only notable as the "first."

>> No.3522220

>>3521943
I find it pretty impressive for a first.
It beats out a lot of games that came over a decade later in terms of complexity with gravity, inertia and limited fuel and ammunition.

>> No.3522232

>>3521943
That doesn't look like Tennis For Two.

>> No.3522246

>>3521943
Shut up you never even played it biznitch.

>> No.3522252

>>3522232
Tennis for Two and all the other stuff at the time only ran on a single system. Spacewar could be played on any PDP-1 and was ported to other computers as well.

>> No.3522776

>>3522252
yeah, so? it's not like you're about to take spacewar over to Bill's house and run it on his PDP. It was a friggin supercomputer.

>> No.3522807
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3522807

>>3521873
>Pretending best isn't subjective

>> No.3522828

>>3522776
It meant you could play it at your local university or in some companies.
Spacewar also inspired others to make their own games instead of just being a curiosity at a science fair. Games like Asteroids trace their lineage to it.

>> No.3522863

Nah, there's tons of games with way better gameplay