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A PROUD TRADITION

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PC gaming is a very particular and proud niche that can trace its roots all the way back to 1962. It began when Stephen Russell led a team of programmer­s at the Massachuse­tts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a game called Spacewar!. The young computer programmer and his fellows designed the game for a PDP-1, a computer the size of a car. And while the graphics were pretty basic, they held up quite well compared to some of the games available even as late as the 1980s. Today PC gaming inspires an avid following, and many players take the actual performanc­e and look of their computers almost as seriously as their gaming, ‘overclocki­ng’ the components to many times their rated speeds and installing

RGB lighting into bespoke PC cases.

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Russell’s Spacewar! is considered the first video game

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