History VideoGame / ComputerSpace

''Computer Space'' is the first commercially sold UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame, created by [[Creator/{{Atari}} Nolan Bushnell]] and released in November 1971. It's a one or two player version of ''VideoGame/SpaceWar''. ''Space War'' had previously been software running on [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers $20,000 general-purpose hardware]]; Bushnell's innovation was to use cheap logic chips to create a machine specifically for playing this one game.

* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Probably the UrExample for an actual game. The [[http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1530&image=1 game's flyer]] features a woman in a low-cut white gown (which is translucent enough her panties are visible) leaning on the cabinet. [[https://xtremeretro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Computer-Space-Nutting-Associates-1971-Arcade-Flyer-Xtreme-Retro-2.png An alternate flyer]] goes a step further, featuring the same woman in another pose that has her [[LegFocus showing some leg]].

* ArbitraryMaximumRange: Missiles disappear at a certain distance.

* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Probably the UrExample for an actual game. The [[http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1530&image=1 game's flyer]] features a woman in a low-cut white gown (which is translucent enough her panties are visible) leaning on the cabinet. [[https://xtremeretro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Computer-Space-Nutting-Associates-1971-Arcade-Flyer-Xtreme-Retro-2.png An alternate flyer]] goes a step further, featuring the same woman in another pose that has her [[ShesGotLegs show some leg]].

%%* TwoDSpace
%%* ArbitraryMaximumRange

%%* EndlessGame
%%* EveryBulletIsATracer

%%* NoPlotNoProblem
%%* OneBulletAtATime
%%* OneHitPointWonder
* PlayerVersusPlayer: Some versions.
%%* ScoringPoints
* TimedMission: 90 seconds to score more points than the saucers in one-player versions.
%%* WrapAround

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* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Probably the UrExample for an actual game. The [[http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1530&image=1 game's flyer]] features a woman in a low-cut white gown (which is translucent so her panties are visible) leaning on the cabinet.

* TwoDSpace
* ArbitraryMaximumRange

* EndlessGame
* EveryBulletIsATracer

* NoPlotNoProblem
* OneBulletAtATime
* OneHitPointWonder

* ScoringPoints

* WrapAround

[[caption-width-right:220:Not Include: LadyNotAppearingInThisGame]]

''Computer Space'' is the first commercially sold UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame, created by [[{{Atari}} Nolan Bushnell]] and released in November 1971. It's a one or two player version of ''VideoGame/SpaceWar''. ''Space War'' had previously been software running on [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers $20,000 general-purpose hardware]]; Bushnell's innovation was to use cheap logic chips to create a machine specifically for playing this one game.

Bushnell created ''Computer Space'' at home, and sold the game to Nutting and Associates, a maker of mechanical coin-op games. It was not a success, because drunks in a bar couldn't understand how to play a game designed for college students. Bushnell left Nutting and founded his own company, Syzygy Corp., later {{Atari}}.

* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Probably the URExample for an actual game. The [[http://flyers.arcade-museum.com/?page=flyer&db=videodb&id=1530&image=1 game's flyer]] features a woman in a low-cut white gown (which is translucent so her panties are visible) leaning on the cabinet.

* TwoDSpace

* {{Two-D Space}}

''Computer Space'' is the first commercially sold ArcadeGame, created by [[{{Atari}} Nolan Bushnell]] and released in November 1971. It's a one or two player version of ''VideoGame/SpaceWar''. ''Space War'' had previously been software running on [[UsefulNotes/MainframesAndMinicomputers $20,000 general-purpose hardware]]; Bushnell's innovation was to use cheap logic chips to create a machine specifically for playing this one game.

''Computer Space'' is the first commercially sold ArcadeGame, created by [[{{Atari}} Nolan Bushnell]] and released in November 1971. It's a one or two player version of ''VideoGame/SpaceWar''. ''Space War'' had previously been software running on [[MainframesAndMinicomputers $20,000 general-purpose hardware]]; Bushnell's innovation was to use cheap logic chips to create a machine specifically for playing this one game.

* CollisionDamage

* ArbitraryMaximumRange

''Computer Space'' is the first commercially sold ArcadeGame, created by [[{{Atari}} Nolan Bushnell]] and released in November 1971. It's a one or two player version of ''SpaceWar''. ''Space War'' had previously been software running on [[MainframesAndMinicomputers $20,000 general-purpose hardware]]; Bushnell's innovation was to use cheap logic chips to create a machine specifically for playing this one game.