Developer : Syzygy Engineering
Genre : Multidirectional shoot 'em up
Graphics : 1-bit Graphics
Release Info : MiSTer implementation
Audio : Synthesized Sound
Achievements : retroachievements.orgnot completed.
'Computer Space' is the first and only game by Syzygy Engineerings, later known as Atari. It's inspired by Steve Russel's PDP-1 early computer game 'Spacewar!' from 1962, and it's the first arcade video game. It's not the first arcade game, as electro-mechanical arcade games had existed since the 1940s.
Image source: ultimatehistoryvideogames.jimdofree.com/
Log entries
- I tried this for the first time on MiSTer. It's like a lame version of Asteroids.
Ed Fries was fixing a Computer Space machine, and posted this photo and diagram from the discrete sprite 'memory', manually sautered pixels1.
Computer Space schematics
Computer Space circuit board
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Fixing Computer Space
Ed Fries 2015 ↩
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2021-10-04
2025-02-08