For those who are too young or forgot this hearkens back to RobotWar by Silas Warner on the Plato system in 1970s and later on the Apple II (1981) and there may

For those who are too young or forgot this hearkens back to RobotWar by Silas Warner on the Plato system in 1970s and later on the Apple II (1981) and there may well have been something from an earlier time on the old big iron. Does anyone know of anything earlier? I had so much fun on RobotWar and it had an impeccable source level debugger which was a revelation in 1981. I'm excited there are current code battle arena games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobotWar