22nd
April
2003
the history of video games
“…at MIT circa 1961 there’s a group of hard core computer nerds calling themselves the tech model railroad club: wayne witanen and j. martin graetz, along with 25 year-old steve russell, they develop the idea to pit two spaceships with limited fuel supplies against each other in a missle duel. the program becomes ’spacewar !,’ the world’s first fully interactive videogame, with russell as main programmer (1962)…”