Death of a legendary designer, Alan Kotok
March 17, 2011 by Cheap games
Filed under Games news
The creator of Spacewar, one of the dinosaurs that laid the foundations of what we now call games, has died of a heart attack at 64 years old.
If you wonder what was the merit of its establishment, suffice to say that Kotok with students from MIT, he programmed a prototype game 10 years before the advent of Pong, the tennis game that went with the early Atari consoles.
Spacewar occupied 8 ks. The before if they knew. Rest in peace Mr. Kotok.
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