"In 1962, Massachusetts Institute of Technology students Steve Russell, Martin ""Shag"" Graetz and Alan Kotok created ""Spacewar!"" which is widely considered the first interactive video game. Dueling players fired at each other's spaceships using early versions of joysticks. This photo shows the three ""Spacewar!"" inventors playing the game at Boston's Computer Museum in 1983."
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