Steven Russell Programs "Spacewar," the First Computer Game for a Commercially Available Computer

In 1962 Programmer and computer scientist Steve Russell, aka Steve "Slug" Russell, and his team at MIT, including members of the Tech Model Railroad Club, took about 200 hours to program the first computer game on a DEC PDP-1. This was the first computer game produced for a commercially available computer.

Inspired by the space battles in the Lensman serial of science fiction space opera by E. E. "Doc" Smith, the computer game, or videogame, was called “Spacewar ”.