was not a commercial game, it helped launch the $100 billion video game industry by turning the computer into the most powerful toy ever created. Friends, I won't be able to explain every computer-technical term that comes by.

Keyboard buttons^ (Else … The event was held on October 19, 1972, at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory using a variant of Spacewar!

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The winner of the world’s first video game tournament received a free subscription to Rolling Stone, and a chance to be immortalized in print by … From 1968 to 1971 he edited the Whole Earth Catalog.

Stewart Brand, 33, is a graduate of Stanford (biology). is …

Fortunately you don't need them to get the gist of what's happening.) While the original Spacewar! Stewart Brand's Dec 7, 1972 Rolling Stone article on Spacewar! First prize, which went to team winners Slim Tovar and Robert E. Maas, and free-for-all winner Bruce Baumgart, was a year's subscription to Rolling Stone.

on a combined PDP-6/PDP-10 that supported five players, and was the first ever video game tournament, with an account published in the December 7, 1972 issue of Rolling Stone. This is for the first familiarization battles in the Spacewar Olympics, initiated by me and sponsored (beer A prizes) by Roll¬ ing Stone. The first “Intergalactic spacewar olympics” will be held here, First prize will be a year’s subscription to “Rolling Stone”. As Rolling Stone commented in 1972, it was “a flawless crystal ball of things to come in computer science and computer use.”