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A museum blog post about Galaxy Game has put the pioneering 1971 Stanford coin-operated video game back in conversation. Long overshadowed by Computer Space, Galaxy Game is widely credited as one of the earliest arcade video games, and readers are discussing its history and preservation.
- 2Galaxy Game, the earliest arcade machine, restored at Interim Computer Museum●Galaxy Game – Interim Computer Museum
The Interim Computer Museum has published a write-up on Galaxy Game, the coin-operated space combat game installed at Stanford University in 1971, widely regarded as the first arcade video game. The post covers the machine's history and preservation, and early comments on the museum's blog show enthusiasts debating its place in computing history alongside Pong and other early experiments.