It was amazing for it’s time. Consider that pong didn’t show up in the home in the mid 1970s. Pong was no where near as advanced as Space War. Having originally been developed on the PDP-1 in 1962. And later ported to the PDP-6. And then again later on the PDP-10. Read more here.
See it played on a PDP-1, below…
Play it yourself on a virtual PDP-1. Or this javascript version here, it says it’s an authentic version (not a clone) of the game, which you can download here, and run locally in your own browser.
Instructions
- a-left
- d-right
- w-fire
- s-thrust