Alan was one of the men who made “Spacewar,” which is one of the first video games ever. He was responsible for the controller design and some of the math routines used in the PDP-1 it ran on. Hats off to one of the videogame pioneers who helped bring us to where we are today.
[url=http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/7/11/4600]Alan Kotok, designer of the first video game controller, dies at 64[/url] (Artechnica)
