![]() And one of the very first video games, “Spacewar!” for the DEC PDP-1 minicomputer, featured two ships dogfighting in the gravity well of a star. ![]() There are some, like the long-running Elite series, that do feature realistic momentum and thrust, but gravity is rarely part of the equation. Yet games featuring realistic spaceflight are quite rare. SpaceQ featured Canada’s own Mass Effect series, where players jet from planet to planet in a growing war against ancient alien robots, as only one of countless examples. Sure, many games are based on science-fiction settings, featuring spaceships blasting each other with lasers. Space has a strange position in modern gaming.
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