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24 alternatives to Spacewar! featuring the original "Minskytron Hyperspace"
Play the original Spacewar!, the classic 1960s video game on a virtual PDP-1. Emulation of the first video game ever (with accurate screen graphics) in plain HTML5.
Spacewar! is an HTML5 emulation of the original 1960s video game, running on a virtual PDP-1 computer. Players control spaceships in this early digital game, optionally using gamepads or joysticks for authentic… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Spacewar! featuring the original "Minskytron Hyperspace" launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Free multiplayer dogfights in your browser, the official reboot of the 2017 hit. Five aircraft, five game modes, no download.
2017 · airma.sh · its alternatives →
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The classic retro game recreated using Pygame and python.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:video_game: The classic retro game recreated using Pygame and python - tasdikrahman/spaceShooter
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The eternal battle between day and night, good and bad. Written in JavaScript with some HTML & CSS in one index.html. Feel free to reuse the code and create your own version.
2024 · pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →
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A modern HTML5 canvas remake of the classic Atari game from 1980. Defend your cities and missile bases from incoming enemy attacks using your missile launchers. Initially built using the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro AI LLM model.
2025 · missile-command-game.centminmod.com · its alternatives →
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PolyWars▲86Conquer the Polyverse with your NFT spaceships!
2021 · polywars.space · its alternatives →
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I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →
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All games are playable in the browser, and were written in the past month in AGC/Macro1 assembler, with the source code available on Github: https://github.com/1888games/2048_Apollo https://github.com/1888games/2DMaze_AGC https://github.com/1888games/1nvader-PDP-1
2023 · itch.io · its alternatives →
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_Vector Defense_ is a retro vector graphics style tower defense game (demo). This was a holiday "weekend" project. I wanted to recreate some of the fun I had in the past with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoDefense and one other (Android?) game that may predate GeoDefense, but which was fixed grid and placement. Creation Details I "wrote" this in English. 99% of my development came from carefully articulated directions and requests from me to Gemini 3 (usually planning mode, in Antigravity IDE). Music is also AI generated via Suno.com, from my prompts. SFX are samples…
Sep 2026 · michaelteter.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · urk-3d-multi-space-game.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch. The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo. *…
2025 · jdfio.com · its alternatives →
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A side scrolling combat racing game set in outer space
2016 · intergalacticroadwarriors.com · its alternatives →
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Star Command ▲60Simple and fun 8-bit timing based starship simulator.
2015 · starcommandgame.com · its alternatives →
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Real Time Strategy. Contribute to emnh/rts development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Emscripten-Port of Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny - midzer/wolf4sdl
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A hard sci-fi space exploration game
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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robotgame.org is for sale on Spaceship. Secure checkout and quick transfer. See all purchase options. No hidden fees.
2013 · robotgame.org · its alternatives →
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A neon battleship space couch co-op game for 1-2 players.
2015 · asteroidbase.com · its alternatives →
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X-wing simulator based on the iconic Star Wars battle!
2015 · its alternatives →
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