Martin Graetz

aka: Martin "Shag" Graetz, J. Martin Graetz
Moby ID: 596029

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J. Martin Graetz was one of the three MIT students (the others being Steve Russell and Wayne Wiitanen) responsible for conceiving Spacewar in 1961. With the first version produced the following year, it was one of History's first video games.

Credits

Galaxy Game (1971, Arcade)	Original concept by
Computer Space (1971, Arcade)	Original Concept by
Spacewar! (1962, Mainframe)	Collaborators

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The origin of Spacewar
Article about Spacewar from the August, 1981 issue of Creative Computing magazine, written by Graetz himself.

Graetz at The Computer Museum, Boston, circa 1984. source

Frequent Collaborators

People

3 games with Wayne Wiitanen
3 games with Steve Russell
1 game with Nolan Bushnell
1 game with Bill Pitts
1 game with Hugh Tuck
1 game with Samuel Frederick Dabney Jr.
1 game with Bob Saunders
1 game with Steve Piner

Companies

1 game with Computer Recreations, Inc.
1 game with Nutting Associates
1 game with Atari Holdings, Inc.

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