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TURN-BASED TACTICAL SPACE BATTLES. Spacewars is a turn-based tactical online strategy MMO, where real-time travel meets turn-based combat. The universe is made up of four asymmetrical races, with very different play styles from each other. Players choose a starting race, and a starting ship, with a customized Captain as their avatar.
Released: 1982
Genre: Shoot-'em-up
Format reviewed:Vectrex Caesars casino map.
Publisher:MB
Developer:Cinematronics
Submitted by:Mat Corne
In 1962 Steve Russell and his friends at MIT created Spacewar on the DEC PDP-1, a game that is generally recognised as the first computer video game. This 2-player space dogfight was the influence for Nolan Bushnell's Computer Space, the first mass-produced arcade video game, and the gameplay mechanics went on to influence classic games such as Asteroids and more recently Geometry Wars. Make no mistake, Spacewar was the daddy!
Space Wars on the Vectrex is the home version of the Cinematronics arcade machine of the same name, and is considered to be the best commercial interpretation of the 1962 original due to similar controls and the vector screen. So by playing this game on the Vectrex you are as close to playing the first-ever video game as you can reasonably get.
3 card bragg. You'd probably imagine that the first-ever video game would be somewhat primitive, but Space Wars is far from that. The controls allow you to dictate your craft's speed and direction with pinpoint accuracy, and strategy is required as you only have a limited amount of fuel and shots to try and defeat your opponent. High roller casino games. The floating asteroid and central sun, with its own gravitational pull, provide added challenges and there are a number of customisable options in this version.
More important than all of that however, it's great fun! Get two players in front of this game and they will soon be zipping around the screen in fluid vector-based motion, firing blasts at one another before vanishing into hyperspace. Space Wars is, and always will be, the oldest video game on Earth and yet it is as much fun now as it ever was. If you've never played the game but consider yourself a student of video games, your education is not complete until you've played the daddy of them all!
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| Space Wars | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Cinematronics |
| Publisher(s) | Cinematronics |
| Programmer(s) | Larry Rosenthal[1] |
| Platform(s) | Arcade, Vectrex |
| Release | 1977: Arcade 1982: Vectrex |
| Genre(s) | Multidirectional shooter |
| Mode(s) | 2 players, player vs. player |
| Cabinet | Upright |
| Display | Horizontal, Vector, black and white |
Space Wars is a competitive, two-player video game released in arcades in 1977 by Cinematronics. Like the 1962 PDP-1 program Spacewar! it is based on, it uses black and white vector graphics for the visuals. The hardware developed for Space Wars became the platform for most of the vector-based arcade games from Cinematronics. A Vectrex port was published in 1982.
Gameplay[edit]
Two players controlled different ships. One button rotated the ship left, another rotated the ship right, one engaged thrust, one fired a shell, and one entered hyperspace (which causes the ship to disappear and reappear elsewhere on the playfield at random).
The game offered a number of gameplay options, including the presence or absence of a star in the middle of the playfield (which exerted a positive or negative gravitational pull), whether the edges of the playfield wrapped around to their opposite sides, and whether shells bounced. The game had three particular features: First, the game could not be played in 'one player' mode; a human opponent was required. Second, the player's ship could take a glancing hit without dying, but would suffer damage; a cloud of loose ship fragments would break off and float away, after which the ship would be visibly damaged on screen and would turn and accelerate more slowly. Third and most memorable was that the duration of play for any contest was solely governed by the amount of money deposited; each quarter bought a minute and a half of play. A dollar bought six minutes, and for a ten dollar roll of quarters two players could play non-stop for an hour.
Development[edit]
Larry Rosenthal was an MIT graduate who was fascinated with the original Spacewar! and developed his own custom hardware and software so that he could play the game. Cinematronics worked with Rosenthal to produce the Space Wars system.
Legacy[edit]
Space Wars formed the basis of the platform used by Cinematronics for their subsequent black-and-white vector games such as Star Castle and Tail Gunner.
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See also[edit]
- Space War for the Atari VCS (1978)
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References[edit]
- ^Hague, James. 'The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers'.
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External links[edit]
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- 'Space Wars and Cinematronics' at The Dot Eaters
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