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oct 15, 1972 - Spacewar Olympics

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The first-ever gaming tournament, which took place in 1972 when about two dozen players gathered in Palo Alto, Calif., around a DEC PDP-10 computer in Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The players competed in Spacewar! — a space combat video game developed in 1962.

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oct 15, 1972
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