[Leica] Steve Russell, inventor of the first ever video game.

[rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

There was a later version, for PCs, which allowed gravity to be tweaked, 
from about +10 (sucked you right in if you were within about a third of a 
screen) to -5 (shoved you off the screen if you weren't careful).? It could 
also be tweaked to allow the torpedoes to have mass, which meant gravity arc 
shots were possible.? 

Hyperspace still blew you to bits more often than not, though.


(great shot)

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R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...


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> From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
>To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> 
>Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 9:22 PM
>Subject: [Leica] Steve Russell, inventor of the first ever video game.
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>This is a shot of Steve in a lecture/demonstration of a PDP1 computer that 
>volunteers at the Computer History Museum restored to working order. This 
>was a three-year effort, taking place many years ago. This demonstration 
>takes place twice a month, includes audience members getting to play Space 
>War, which Steve wrote in the early 1960s. About the same period, another 
>museum volunteer, Peter Sampson, wrote a program that enables the computer 
>to play four-part music, sounding much like a pipe organ.
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>Space War has two competing rocket ships, in the gravitational field of the 
>sun, shooting torpedoes at each other. Because the computer did not have 
>enough power to deal with the effect of gravity on the torpedoes, Steve 
>decided to invent "photon torpedoes" unaffected by gravity. He also 
>invented hyperspace, an emergency escape hatch, but claims that the 
>hyperspace generator is defective and that no ship ever survived more than 
>seven trips through hyperspace.
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>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010233.jpg.html
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>Herbert Kanner
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