The first computer game was developed in the early 1950s by a team of scientists at Manchester University in the United Kingdom. The game, called “Space War!”, was a two-player game that simulated a space battle between two spacecraft.
Space War! was played on a custom-built computer called the Manchester Mark 1. The game was input using a custom keyboard that had ten buttons for each player. The game was displayed on a cathode ray tube screen.
Space War! was a popular game in the early days of computer gaming. It was ported to a number of different computer platforms, …