It's 1982 and you're terrible at Arcade games... 🕹️
Never fear! Craig Kubey delivers the "Winner's Book of Video Games"‼️
Asteroids. Missile Command. Defender. Pac-Man. and many, many more!
Check it out here:
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https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-winners-book-of-video-games
#Arcade #Arcades #Gaming #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Defender #Pong #SpaceWar #Combat #Galaga #Galaxian #Shmup #MissileCommand #Asteroids #SpaceInvaders #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Breakout #Berzerk #QIX #Eliminator #Gorf #Centipede #Tempest
#tempest #centipede #gorf #eliminator #qix #Berzerk #breakout #bookstodon #Books #book #spaceinvaders #asteroids #missilecommand #shmup #galaxian #galaga #combat #spacewar #pong #defender #gamer #videogames #videogame #Gaming #arcades #arcade
What are your fave space war stories (books, TV, film) and why? Authors, what have you written?
#Reader #Readers #Discussion #WritersofMastodon #Writers #Authors #Writer #Author #SciFi #ScinceFiction #SpaceWar #War
#reader #readers #discussion #writersofmastodon #writers #authors #writer #author #scifi #scincefiction #spacewar #war
At Decca Navigator we had a high speed paper tape reader, it was impossible to spool the output in real (reel?) time so we had to catch it in dustbins and spool it by hand later (1979)
#mergenthaler #imlac #linotron #retrocomputers #retrocomputing #pds4 #spacewar
#mergenthaler #imlac #linotron #retrocomputers #retrocomputing #pds4 #spacewar
#RetroGames strike again with #Spacewar
One of the first video games in history, it dates back to 1962.
It's a space-themed two-player shooter that implies star gravity as the main mechanic.
Minimalist and challenging, it got us hooked even today.
An (almost) original version is available here:
https://spacewar.oversigma.com (with the code available in the readme)
#retrogames #spacewar #retro #shmups #videogames #softwarehistory #digitalhistory
"The way we’ve been doing space operations since the dawn of the space age, we’ve been doing it wrong", says the second highest officer of the US Space Command. He argues for a fundamental shift in #US #military #space #doctrin. I've summed it up for @heiseonline in German:
https://www.heise.de/news/US-Space-Command-Wir-haben-unsere-Satelliten-falsch-gebaut-9212254.html
#satellites #rockets #cyberwar #spacewar #intelligence #reconnaissance #surveillance
#us #military #space #doctrin #satellites #rockets #cyberwar #spacewar #intelligence #reconnaissance #surveillance
“In January the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, warned that China might start claiming lunar territory “under the guise of scientific research”.”
https://archive.ph/GG7MR
Via #TheEconomist “China is unusually secretive about its space programme” 18 May 2023
#theeconomist #SpaceEd #china #spacewar #nasa #moon
#spacewar history: "Russell began providing various excuses as to why he could not [write the game]. One of these was the lack of a trigonometric function routine needed to calculate the trajectories of the spacecraft. This prompted Alan Kotok of the TMRC to call DEC, who informed him that they had such a routine already written. Kotok drove to DEC to pick up a tape containing the code, slammed it down in front of Russell, and asked what other excuses he had."
When was space ever a benign environment? https://www.spacewar.com/reports/Space_Force_Simple_Formula_to_Go_Fast_in_Space_Acquisition_999.html #SpaceForce #SpaceWar
OTHER | SPACE WARFARE | KESSLER SYNDROME
THE WALL OF A TRILLION STONES
https://hard-sci-fi.blogspot.com/2022/12/other-space-warfare-kessler-syndrome.html
#SpaceWar #KesslerSyndrome
(4/4) Christian communities in both my Friday morning men’s group at Trinity Presbyterian and in our church and “ACE” Sunday school class at Caldwell Presbyterian here in Charlotte, North Carolina.
https://www.caldwellpresby.org #CommPrep #SpaceEd #STEM #dw4jc #CaldwellPres #poverty #homeless #homelessness #CLT #CLTvoices #Space #SpaceWar #history #SpaceHistory
#CommPrep #SpaceEd #stem #dw4jc #CaldwellPres #space #history #spacehistory #poverty #homeless #homelessness #clt #CLTvoices #spacewar
Whoever controls #space will be the #dominantpower in the #21stcentury #SpaceWar
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-15-whoever-controls-space-dominant-power-21st-century.html
#spacewar #21stcentury #dominantpower #space
📍 SpaceWar!
— computerhistory.org
#SpaceWar #PDP1 #GamingHistory
https://youtu.be/_L1HeZ2kPck
#spacewar #pdp1 #gaminghistory
🇲🇳🚀 Pennacchio di gas di scarico osservato a Ordos, in Mongolia.
Si ritiene che si tratti di un'attività di lancio non-civile.
Non è stato ancora fatto alcun annuncio ufficiale sull'evento.
➡️ Unisciti a @PlanetNews
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#Ukraine️ #ukrainewar #UkraineWar #Ukraina #RussiaUkraineConflict #Russia #russianarmy #army #weapon #weapons #mongolia #space #spacewar
#ukraine #UkraineWar #ukraina #RussiaUkraineConflict #russia #russianarmy #army #weapon #weapons #mongolia #space #spacewar
We'll be recording episode 262, 60 years after it was 1962, here, about 4.5 hours from when this was typed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FwYRhGaD6s #podcast #retrocompute #spacewar
#podcast #retrocompute #spacewar
What sci-fi elements birthed Spacewar!, one of the most influential games of all time?
This short runs through the conceptual origins of the PDP-1 game to see how - pre Star Trek (or Wars) - the very idea of space shooters was brought to video games.
#SpaceWar brewing? #Russia threatens to destroy #Starlink #satellites
#satellites #starlink #russia #spacewar
#SpaceWar brewing? #Russia threatens to destroy #Starlink #satellites
#satellites #starlink #russia #spacewar