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The history of PC gaming

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From mainframe curiosities to ray-traced blockbusters — how well do you know the story of gaming on PC?

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Which 1962 game, developed at MIT, is widely considered one of the earliest examples of a video game running on a computer?

A Pong B Tennis for Two C Spacewar! D Colossal Cave Adventure

Correct! Spacewar! was developed by Steve Russell and others at MIT in 1962 on a PDP-1 mainframe. It became enormously influential, spreading to university campuses across the US and inspiring a generation of future game developers.

Not quite. The answer is Spacewar!, developed at MIT in 1962. While Tennis for Two (1958) predates it as a game-like simulation, Spacewar!…