A student of the University of Utah teamed up with a researcher at Stanford University to make a video game called Spacewar!
They used to play it in a university lab and saw the potential to convert it into an arcade game encased in a cabinet.
The final game, called Computer Space, achieved success in 1971 and paved the way for the video game industry, which is now worth more than the music and film industries combined.
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