The best cameo on ‘The Book of Boba Fett’ is a real-life video game Spacewar

The Book of Boba Fett is yet another chance for Star Wars fans to spot fun Easter eggs and cameos, but the best one of these so far is actually a video game. In the second episode, Boba Fett hunts down a speeder bike gang in a cantina on Tatooine. As part of the entertainment, the bar owner has installed a computer game that similar to the holographic chess game on the Millenium Falcon in A New Hope. But instead of a hologram, this computer is displaying a re-creation of the real-life Spacewar game from 1961.

Spacewar is the first digital video game. Massachusetts Institute of Technology students Martin Graetz, Stephen Russell, and Wayne Wiitanen created the game for the early DEC PDP-1 mainframe computer. And the game fits well with the Star Wars aesthetic because it originally operated on an oscilloscope monitor. That gives it its round shape that you see in the breifly in the show.