alt Hacker NewsRegarding "The Second Oldest Game Developer", there are also the authors of "Spacewar!": Steve Russell was born in 1937, meaning, he's either 89 or will be 89 this year. Dan Edwards must be around that age, as well.
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benstopics • yesterday at 8:28 AM
I am definitely sharing this with Michael he will be happy to be pushed down in the dinosaur ranking!
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msephton • yesterday at 8:39 AM
The two developers mentioned/compared were for the games the op has ported.
blobbers • yesterday at 7:41 AM
Spacewar.com was such a classic game. Why wasn't it an exe??
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Spacewar was ported to Plato from Control Data; I played a little, but I played a lottt of Avatar. There are a number of Plato games that probably have some older / early game developers. Out of curiosity I just looked up Avatar, Bruce Maggs coded it in ‘76 and went on to among other things be one of the Akamai founders. But he’s 20 years younger than Russell.