Wow, that game does look neat. It looks familiar somehow, but I don't think I've played it...It looks like something I'd have been into in a major way, though.

I thought this chapter turned out well. I just re-read it and got a kick out of all the puns. :)

I think Bill and I were both thinking that Spacewar! history had been so many times that it wasn't worth our time rehashing all the same old stuff, so we tried to have more fun and keep it light. It's not like there's not twenty different places you could go to read the fine details of the game, including several books. Not necessarily an excuse, just saying the goal of the chapter wasn't to be exhaustive, since we didn't feel we had any obligations to defend the game's influences (others have done so for us).