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The first PC game - johnthan - 01-31-2023

The first commercially available PC game was "Spacewar!", which was created in 1962 by Steve Russell and others at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

It is a classic computer game that was created in 1962 by Steve Russell. The only commercially available PC game. It was a pioneer in the video game industry and is considered to be the first popular video game.

It is considered to be the first popular video game and is often cited as the inspiration for many of the early video games that followed. The game involves two spaceships that battle each other in a zero-gravity environment, and it was played on early computer systems such as the PDP-1.

Below are a few of the PC games released after "Spacewar":
"Colossal Cave Adventure" (1976)
"Zork" (1977-79)
"Adventure" (1979)
"BASIC Computer Games" (1979)
"Maze War" (1974)
"The Empire Game" (1971)