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?

Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games. While ...

Tennis for Two was developed as a display piece for the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s public exhibition to showcase the institution’s Donner Model 30 analog computer. It featured a DuMont Lab ...

Do you remember the first video game you couldn't stop playing? Maybe it was the satisfying clunk of a Pac-Man joystick at the local pizza shop or (if you were lucky enough to live somewhere cool) the ...

Ah, early childhood. Not all of us gamers began the long road down this hobby so soon, but many did, including myself. My uncle ditched the household when I was four, but he was kind enough to leave ...