MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: GALAXY GAME

Kudo's to various contributors for keeping dream alive for past several years and it has paid off. And also applauds to Mr. Bill Pitts too.

Galaxy Game should now get recognition being the "first coin-operated video game"; not "first arcade video game". A difference between the two descriptions since the game wasn't mass marketed although maybe there was a plan to do that at the time. It could have had some limited success, imo, in arcades back then if it could have been successfully mass marketed.

Time for Arcade database web sites to start copying, borrow, grab etc of some notes from
Ranger_lennier's MAME Page: http://ranger.mameworld.info/

And any needed info from the other links because some of the pages and links are now currently "404" and no longer there.

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Stanford's Galaxy Game page

old url- http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/galaxy.html
new url- http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/galaxy.html

A news article on Spacewar, Galaxy Game, and Computer Space
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/PDP-1-SpaceWar-Article.html

But credit for the first commercial video game actually goes to Bill Pitts, a Stanford graduate named who with a high school friend, Hugh Tuck, installed "Galaxy Game," a coin-operated version of "Spacewar," in Stanford's student union several months before Bushnell introduced "Computer Space."
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I don't know why there is a description of Computer Space being a flop. Granted it wasn't as popular as pong, but Computer Space did have some limited success imo. I remembered seeing some folks lining up to play Computer Space back in winter 1971 when there was a Computer Space cab in a Straw Hat pizza parlor.

Edited by gregf (11/02/11 12:00 AM)