Maze War
From Computer History Wiki
Maze (sometimes called Maze War) is a video game first created for the Imlac PDS-1's at the NASA Ames Research Center. In 1974, Greg Thompson took it to the Dynamic Modeling group at MIT, where it was expanded into a multi-player game with a server running on an ITS mainframe. Next, it was ported to the MagicSix operating system. Another version was written in Logo on the SITS operating system.
In 1977, it was re-written for the Xerox Alto by Jim Guyton. This version was called 'Maze War' and received a lot of attention, which is why the game is mostly known by that name.
External links
- Maze War 30 Year Retrospective, including stories by Colley, Palmer, Lebling, Guyton
- How Mazewar Escaped from a Lab at MIT in 1977, Wahrman's account
- Imlac source code from MIT
- PDP-10 source code for the server
- Imlac Anatomy - description of putting together a demonstration for the 30th anniversary of Mazewar
