Steve Russell
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Steve "Slug" Russell is a programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogame, in 1961 with the fellow members of the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT working on a DEC Digital PDP-1. While there is some debate over priority regarding the concept of computer-based games in general, Spacewar! was unquestionably the first to gain widespread recognition, and is generally recognized as the first of the "shoot-'em' up" genre.
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