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When you're driving you're re-enacting an ancient space combat SIM

Posted on Friday 17 May 2024. 1,259 words, 14 links. By Matt Webb.

During development, he snuck into nearby Atari’s coin-op division building with Etak engineers to show them the hit 1979 arcade title Asteroids. – Benj Edwards, Fast Company, The Untold Story of Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell’s Visionary 1980s Tech Incubator (2017) Asteroids? While “the wedge” spaceship in Spacewar isn’t visually identical to the ship in Asteroids, and therefore to Etak, and Google Maps, and the dart-arrow that appears in the iPhone, there’s the ancestry.

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