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Believe it or not, video games are now a hobby with a half-century-long history. Pong is perhaps the first video game to bring gaming to mainstream audiences in the early 1970s, and now it's possible ...

Long before video games became something you downloaded or streamed, they existed as curiosities built by scientists who weren’t trying to entertain the world. In the late 1950s, screens were rare and ...

The first video game ever created was Tennis for Two in 1958, and while it was an important milestone in the history of the medium, it’s less well-known than the ones that followed. Even 1962’s ...

Two arcade cabinets for Nolan Bushnell’s Computer Space, regarded as the first commercially sold video game ever, have been listed on eBay. The games, which predated Pong by about a year, are ...