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In
1972 Bill
Pitts and Hugh
Tuck formed a company called Computer
Recreations and used a low-end PDP-11/20 and an HP 1300A
Electrostatic Display to reprogram a version of Spacewars.
Thay called the new game Galaxy Game
and mounted their new creation in a fibreglass box for a total cost
in the range of $20,000. The game was installed in a student union
coffee shop at Stanford in September 1971
and was a hit among the Student community. Galaxy
game was the first commercial video
game.
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