News

The World’s First True Shooting Game

While Nintendo was a pioneer of video game light guns, first for its elaborate shooting parlours and then its Zapper for the NES, it didn’t create the first home version of the technology.


May 3, 2011
News

The Father Of Video Games Fled Nazis, Then Took All Their Guns

Ralph Baer is widely acknowledged to be the “father of video games”, thanks to his work in the 1960s pioneering the device that would become the Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first ever video game console.


March 26, 2010
In Real Life

Who Remembers Their First Gaming Experience?

This Tuesday was a very important day. It was the first day my one-and-a-half-year-old son played his first video game.