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TIL Nolan Bushnell played Spacewar! in a computer lab in the 1960s. The only computers capable of running the game at the time cost more than $100,000. Bushnell decided he didn't need a computer and used affordable custom hardware to create "Computer Space" housed in a futuristic cabinet

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