I remember playing this game a couple of times at the MIT Student Center when it first appeared. I recall that it cost 25 cents, which at the time I felt was to

I remember playing this game a couple of times at the MIT Student Center when it first appeared. I recall that it cost 25 cents, which at the time I felt was too much for me to spend on a less than engaging game. I also got to play Spacewar!, the 1962 progenitor of Computer Space. It was running on an computer with an oscilloscope-like display residing in a lab I was using somewhere on campus. In that game there was a central "sun" that exerted a gravitational pull. Games from the mid 1970s were, to me, notably better. I liked Lunar Lander which ran on the CDC 6600 operator terminal[1]. This was a dual screen system employing two good sized circular screens! They were vector graphics screens (like oscilloscopes). The mainframe operators let me into the machine room only a few times after hours and let me play the game on what was certainly the most expensive solo video game system I've ever used. Another early game that I found fascinating was 0Airfight, it ran on the University of Illinois PLATO system[2], a very early time-sharing system that had a few thousand terminals. This was a 3D dogfight (with very primitive graphics) and the first networked player vs player game I ever played. Finally, I played an arcade game in an airport around 1978 that was the first version of snakes[3] that I had ever seen. This inspired me to implement it myself using Pascal on a TI 990 micro controller; it was the first game I ever programmed. I was working at Texas Instruments, and I got to go to Munich to demo it at an Electronica trade show[4]; I met with engineers from Mercedes Benz, but I don't think they adopted our Pascal tool-chain for their automotive electronics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6000_series#The_6700 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6000_series#The_6700 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_%28computer_system%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_%28computer_system%29 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronica_(trade_fair) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronica_(trade_fair)