Pong is lauded as the first video game ever published, but this title actually belongs to a lesser-known predecessor.

Computer gaming really has grown up. Classic arcade title Pong turns 40 this week. The first commercially successful video game in history, Pong arrived in U.S. arcades on Nov. 29, 1972, and ...

My first PC game was technically Mario Is Missing, which I've written about before on the site, and that came with my family's first PC. X-Wing is the first game I got for Christmas from my ...

Going all the way back to 1976, Colossal Cave Adventure, one of the first computer games, has been reborn in an open-source incarnation.