In 1964 30 sixth grade students from Westchester County did something nobody else had ever done before: they learned from a computer game. Today the computer’s usefulness as an educational tool has ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

One of my absolute favorite parts of my personal gaming history is when I discovered the world of PC games. I’m talking about MS-DOS titles, well before Windows was a thing. Before the days of in-app ...

Anyone who knows anything about the first games ever made won’t be surprised to hear that Tennis for Two is a supremely simple game. It was invented by American physicist William Higinbotham in 1958, ...

Video games are everywhere. So who was the first person to come up with the idea of playing a game on a computer screen?