URL Hunter! game played entirely in the URL bar

Posted by Benjamin Roudenis on March 13, 2011 0 comments

URL Hunter! is an experimental game using the URL bar as the game screen. You are the ‘O’ and you are trying to kill the ‘a’s by using the Left and Right keys to move. When you are over an ‘a’ press spacebar to kill it!

While this is more of a proof of concept than anything, it’s worth checking out.

URL Hunter!

 

Spacewar!, history’s first computer game in HTML5

Posted by Benjamin Roudenis on March 1, 2011 0 comments

Spacewar!, history’s first game on a minicomputer, has been recreated from the original code in HTML5. Re-assembled with a PDP-1 assembler written in PERL, the resulting binary runs in a PDP-1 emulator written in JavaScript. Play it here!

Spacewar! Original 1962 game code running on a PDP-1 emulator in JavaScript