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Advent of Computing - Episode 139 - HUTSPIEL

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Episode: The early history of computer games is messy, weird, and surprising. This episode we are looking at HUTSPIEL, perhaps one of the oldest games ever played on a computer. It's a wargame developed to simulate nuclear conflict... and it's 100% analog. Selected Sources:

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HUTSPIEL: A Theater War Game : Dorothy K. Clark : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This report, labelled as Staff Paper ORO-SP-53, describes in detail one of the earliest computer games, a wargame called HUTSPIEL created in 1955 a...

- The HUTSPIEL paper

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