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electronic shooter game, electronic game genre in which players control a character or unit that wields weapons to shoot enemies. While shooting games involving “light guns” and photoreceptors were experimented with as early as the 1930s, the birth of this genre of electronic games really began in 1962 with Spacewar!, a software program developed to show off the power of the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1 minicomputer. The game included stellar objects that generated gravitation fields, which two players had to take into account as they maneuvered their spacecraft while shooting at each other and various asteroids. American computer programmers Nolan ...(100 of 565 words)

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