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- Early_mainframe_games abstract "Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by businesses and academic institutions for large-scale, multi-user processes. Before personal computers, first termed microcomputers, became widely available to the general public in the early 1970s, the computing industry was made up of mainframe computers and their relatively smaller and cheaper minicomputer variant. During the mid to late 1960s, many early video games were programmed on these computers. Developed prior to the rise of the commercial video game industry, also in the early 1970s, these early mainframe games were generally written by students or employees at large corporations, and generally only for the specific machine or computer type they were developed on. While most of these games were lost as the original computer or computer type was discontinued, some of them were ported to general computer languages like BASIC, had expanded versions later released for personal computers, or were recreated for bulletin board systems years later, and thus had an impact on future games and developers.These games were largely created between 1968 and 1971, with some smaller games developed in the years beforehand; while games continued to be developed on mainframes and minicomputers through the 1970s, the rise of personal computers and the spread of general-purpose programming languages meant that later games were generally intended to or were capable of being run on personal computers, even when developed on a mainframe. These early games include Hamurabi, an antecedent of the strategy and city-building genres; Lunar Lander, which inspired numerous recreations in the 70s and 80s; Civil War, an early war simulation game; Star Trek, which was widely ported, expanded, and spread for decades after; Space Travel, which led to the creation of the Unix operating system; and Baseball, an early sports game and the first baseball game to allow player control during a game.".
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