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One of the first American videogame magazines is now available for anyone to read, enjoy, and remix thanks to the Video Game History Foundation. Computer Entertainer, which ran from 1982 to 1990, ...

MIT creates a simulation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spacewar. A relic of the early days of minicomputers, it was one of the first computer video games and set the stage for many others, ...

There are two ways to explain what exactly a video game is: the easy, simple way, and the really complex way. The easy answer is that a video game is interactive digital entertainment that you “play” ...