1. My brother and I were obsessed with the vector Cinematronics "Space Wars" game released in 1977. I always thought it was the best implementation.
2. "Orbit" from Atari was a raster coin-op version done in 1978
3. There is a definately link to Asteroids. In fact, Howard Delman and others at Atari were inspired by the Cinenmatronics coin-op to devise Atari's first vector display tech which ultimately led to their vector Lunar Lander then Asteroids.
4. You might want to discuss other "physics" based games, as that really seems to be the genre Space War created. (and head-to-head, but Pong took that and ran with it).
A couple things:
1. My brother and I were obsessed with the vector Cinematronics "Space Wars" game released in 1977. I always thought it was the best implementation.
2. "Orbit" from Atari was a raster coin-op version done in 1978
3. There is a definately link to Asteroids. In fact, Howard Delman and others at Atari were inspired by the Cinenmatronics coin-op to devise Atari's first vector display tech which ultimately led to their vector Lunar Lander then Asteroids.
4. You might want to discuss other "physics" based games, as that really seems to be the genre Space War created. (and head-to-head, but Pong took that and ran with it).