inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame by The Strong and the International Center for the History of Electronic Games. Also in 2018, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences awarded the Pioneer Award, given "for individuals whose career spanning work has helped shape and define the interactive entertainment industry", to the surviving contributors to Spacewar!: Dan Edwards, Martin Graetz, Steven Piner, Steve Russell, Peter Samson, Robert Sanders, and Wayne Wiitanen. References Sources External links Spacewar! page at the Computer History Museum The original Spacewar! source code running on PDP-1 emulator in Java, in JavaScript, and on an FPGA implementation of a PDP-1 Spacewar! for the PDP-1 at the Internet Archive's Historical Software Collection 1962 video games Mainframe games Multiplayer video games Public-domain software with source code Science fiction video games Space combat simulators Video games developed in the United States Video games with available source code Early history of video games World Video Game Hall of Fame