By 1980, Jerry Lawson was ready for a change. The 40-year-old electrical engineer had spent…
Category: Video Games
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Welcome two new inductees into The Strong’s World Video Game Hall of Fame: Animal Crossing…
Every year we induct new games into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, and…
Have you ever played hockey with miniature stick-wielding players and a thumbnail-sized puck on a…
The first home video game machines were all, as we call them today, “dedicatedʺ systems—that…
One of the most frequently asked questions about video game history is perhaps the simplest:…
Nolan Bushnell, Shigeru Miyamoto, Ralph Baer, Jordan Mechner, Will Wright, Hideo Kojima, John Romero. These…
How do you know if a game will be a hit or a flop with…
For most of human existence our ability to play together has been circumscribed by our…
How do you preserve the history of a community? What even makes up a community?…
A sixteen-year-old boy from Pennsylvania, Kyle Giersdorf, ultimately beat out 40 million other people playing…
Ken Fedesna, former Executive Vice President and General Manager at video game developers and publishers…