Spacewar! (1962)

[@BrewsterMcBrewster]

I actually played this game at the time it was a thing. My dad worked at Honeywell in Minneapolis, MN and they had an open house once and I went with him. They had this game set up and I LOVED IT! I went on to work for Atari Inc. in the 80's.

[@sisi_life1999]

Wow, how was it? Was the video game crash as bad as everyone said 😬

[@empressofherteatable]

Like how did donkey Kong Jr look like when it's was in development for the Atari 5200

[@KR0NO]

thats amazing 😁

[@kaisamuels9382]

Way ahead of its time

[@o.der_moralprediger.o1732]

How was that even possible to that time? It's so smooth and nice.

[@KR0NO]

yeah, way ahead of it´s time

[@prepareforwinter213]

@@KR0NO question is, why wasn’t this tech elaborated on

[@lowkeydiegoduran4724]

@@prepareforwinter213 yea I love the streaks it makes and the way the graphics fade

[@Nullius_in_verba]

It was possible because of vectors and phosphor monitors..they were psychedelic and really beautiful to watch, plus they didnt rely on resolution..

[@Nullius_in_verba]

@@prepareforwinter213 Because has a lot of limitation

[@bdot02]

Got to meet the guy who implemented the stars and play it on original equipment over at the computer history museum in California. It was really cool!

[@KR0NO]

that sounds nice!, i bet still looks great.

[@Saltee323]

That PC cost over $100,000. The equivalent of about $800,000 in today’s dollars.

[@ygotsvlog3762]

Omg

[@NobbyNotten]

just buy a house lmao

[@KR0NO]

that's correct, you can only find these computers in universities, because of the cost

[@ygotsvlog3762]

@@KR0NO gulp probably bcuz theyre old and theres only a few

[@starstencahl8985]

@@ygotsvlog3762 Today they’re museum pieces and outdated for actual use. But but then, they were like todays supercomputers. And they cost is equivalent to $800.000 in todays money because inflation of the currency, it doesn’t have to do with the value of the item.

[@millabasset1710]

Video games weren't that far ahead the end of WW2, that's insane.

[@johnedwardsjr]

I first saw this game on a visit to Bell Labs as a high school senior in 1969. They were running it on an IBM 360 mainframe. Mind blown! I still remember that trip.

[@Constantinesis]

Looks much better than the games in the following years.

[@granddidit]

🤨🤨🤨

[@loveplane737]

Minimum Requirements: 1kb of RAM and 8kb of SSD Recommended System Requirements: 4kb of RAM, 512 bytes of VRAM and 8kb of SSD

[@vikasverma6500]

1 kb of ram 😂

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

The graphics are surprisingly fluid and the gameplay physics quite sophisticated and smooth. Definitely looks more playable than I had expected considering this game is so old it predates the GUI.

[@KR0NO]

was far ahead of its time.

[@zchris87v80]

Of coure “pong” brought gaming to the household on an affordable scale a decade later, but it feels almost like regression compared to this.

[@rcstann]

WE HAD A COPY IN 1970 AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO We went wild innovating enhancements. Things like an orbiting planet, retro rockets for rotation, main thrusters, a deployable satellite, missile trajectory prediction, and various enhancements. One of the most sophisticated strategies was to rendezvous with the planet, establish a high orbit, deploy a satellite, then drop down to a lower orbit where you were sheltered. And this was years before Pong. 👁️ .

[@KR0NO]

come to my mind Hackers Heroes of computer revolution.

[@just_a_guy13579]

Why does this feel so much more polished and smooth than pong You’d expect spacewar to be newer but nope

[@KR0NO]

yes, the diference, this game was made in a supercomputer, besides, was the best looking game for many years.

[@losethos]

This game released when my grandma was 17 years old

[@Yashiro-nene_dies]

These graphics are actually not bad for the time.

[@KR0NO]

Massive improvement for the time. Many years later, 70,s games like galaxy game and asteroids were based on this game.

[@ladofthedamned7796]

I remember they used radars and transformed it into like this

[@MajesticSkywhale]

@@ladofthedamned7796 amazing how radar is to thank for both microwave ovens and video games, lmao

[@MorteWulfe]

@@KR0NO Really starting to think my fav game Star Control ripped this combat off a bit.

[@robertmartin8907]

It was literally the only graphics of the time

[@hughdismuke4703]

Wow! I never thought to look up a video to the original Space War. It's a little slow but impressive for 1962. I do like the end-trails the ships leave as they fly through space and in the classic green also. And multiple spray shots? Pretty cool! Like I said 'impressive'!

[@pilotdawn1661]

This has still got to be one of the best computer games of all time.

[@KR0NO]

yes, it is.

[@Alexriga]

It looks pretty good, wow :)

[@KS2416]

fantastic!!!

[@shbddh]

And now we here =)

[@grammarwuot5427]

Look at those RTX 1 graphics

[@ffmax55]

Spacewar est un jeu qui fut développé dans le but de démontrer les capacités techniques de l’ordinateur Programmed Data Processor-1. Il s’agit d’un jeu de combat spatial, dans lequel deux adversaires doivent tenter de se détruire sans entrer en collision avec le soleil qui exerce une attraction sur les vaisseaux. Ce jeu servira également lors de journée « portes ouvertes », puis sera plus tard refait pour un jeu d’arcade (ainsi que pour la console Vectrex).

[@andyjay729]

Interesting to think that JFK and Nikita Khrushchev technically could've played vidya games...

[@a.so.8325]

i played it on an online emulation, and its a lot of fun...

[@decimated550]

look at the shot at 2:40, very long range, direct hit!

[@ryecabansag5685]

And Video Gaming is now a billion dollar industry thanks to this 1st ❤

[@kittenslayer516]

RIP 2 player 1 monitor games

[@miguelmeza6451]

I’ll play this game if they release it on modern consoles like ps5, PS4, or Xbox platforms

[@KR0NO]

Any day. haha me too.

[@techchannel9436]

new whole industry was born here.

[@kame597]

WOW

[@douglasjordan5653]

I used to play this

[@blueshirt1074]

Wait, colours were invented in 1962?

[@anddysilva1435]

@I am me not, is remaster color is only In end 1960s in movies

[@NXT-ju3km]

What is that spinning object in the middle?

[@KR0NO]

it´s a star and affects the gravity of the ships.

[@Cyko..]

No high score entry?

[@KR0NO]

nope. no hurt feelings here.

[@Light-op5ie]

this is much better than the apk game ive installed on android

[@KR0NO]

yeah, i have no doubts.

[@toxicspikes8394]

This game doesn't look like it was made in 1962

[@KR0NO]

yeah far ahead of its time.

[@cameronpickard7456]

just no asteroids

[@sarpsarp8987]

But nobody from society played this in 1962. First commericial video game was released in 1971. Before 1971, you had no access to any video game.

[@KR0NO]

that´s correct, universities and labs mostly.

[@boum]

What’s the song please?

[@KR0NO]

Hero theme by MK2

[@boum]

Top man 👍

[@ccb1127]

I mean you could've looked at the description, but yeah this is a very good song, and a very good game.

[@sinjyn66]

It looks like, was it Omega Run?

[@KR0NO]

i´m not really sure what you mean

[@sinjyn66]

@@KR0NO I meant to say it looks like Omega Race.

[@KR0NO]

@@sinjyn66 a-ok, that was my fisrt guess XD. yeah Space war influenced so many games, even a decade later.

[@Nullius_in_verba]

What is funny is..both raster and polygon graphic were terrible at the beginning, the former compared to vector, the secondth compared to the mature raster graphic of the mid 90s; they both have evolved someway..vector graphic otherwise remained the same and with the proper monitor still today it gives sensations that the superb polygonal virtual reality fails to give. Black background and phosphorescent colorful lights allow an out of the ordinary imagination...

[@KR0NO]

thanks for the comment, indeed, was an amazing technology.

[@jaydavidson4592]

Dumb question, but how/why were graphics on Atari so bad after the fact of this wizardry in 1960's?! (I'm not a tech guy lol)

[@KR0NO]

because this runs on a computer only universities could afford, at the time.

[@timothymayo5833]

Spacewar uses vector graphics that can trace smooth lines, just like games like Asteroids or Star Wars '83. Pixel-based sprite graphics were apparently easier to use and eventually progressed far beyond what vector likely could have been capable of.

[@sanderhackerhd8369]

Weird how it has better graphics than Magnavox Oddysey and Atari 2600, even though they came many years after!

[@KR0NO]

spacewar was way ahead of his time.

[@викторсупруненко-ю4м]

интересно какая видиокарта тогда показувала космос,скоростухи нехватало или проц отставал

[@ccb1127]

Вроде тогда видеокарты были лучше, чем сейчас

[@aquarius5264]

too bad i don't have any friends to play it with

[@KR0NO]

me neither XD let´s play sometime.

[@AppleOno]

Please get rid of the cheesy music and narrate the onscreen text!

[@KR0NO]

thanks for the comment, i´ll take all the suggestions for next videos.

[@dorpth]

Hey, that's just a Star Control ripoff!

[@KR0NO]

yes, it is 😜