About

About Outer Orbit Outer Orbit is an attempt to create a “Spacewar!-for-one” as a tribute to the line of heritage of digital video games. It combines elements of the most classic shooter games, Spacewar! (1961/62) [1], the first known video game on a digital computer, Computer Space (1971) [2] [3] [4], the first coin-operated digital video game, and Asteroids (1979) [5]: From “Spacewar!” it borrows the comic book spaceship, the central star, gravity and orbital mechanics, from “Computer Space” the game mechanics of the saucer opponents and the time-based gameplay, from “Asteroids”, well, the asteroids, which serve here just as additional obstacles to make the game a bit trickier. Enjoy!