Memorials/Alan Kotok

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Alan Kotok

b. November 9, 1941 - d. May 26, 2006

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Alan Kotok video game pioneer, co-developer of Spacewar! and the original video game joystick, died of a heart attack on May 26, 2006 aged 64.

Table of contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Video games 3 Links 4 Comments

[edit] Biography

To be completed later

[edit] Works

[edit] Video games

• Spacewar! (1961), Co-development, joystick creation

[edit] Links

• Gamasutra Obituary
• MIT Obituary
• A Long Time Ago, in a Lab Far Far Away... - NY Times article on the creation of Spacewar!

[edit] Comments