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The Skeptics Guide #859 - Dec 25 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Space War - The Game Play of Computer Space

Back in 19 62, you would probably find kids or students playing space war. Space war was two ships in a star background firing at each other. The congress were evenno, if this is even jad,. This is 62, this is even even more primitive. And that game, space war at this is version one o. It was boring. The game play was horrible. They very quickly realize that this is not enough here. We need to do something. So they what they did as they aded a star in the middle of the screen where there were the variable gravity. That enhanced the game play. Sor you could do interesting things, like, if you hit the star at

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