Long before video games became something you downloaded or streamed, they existed as curiosities built by scientists who ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...