games

The game chess has held a fascination for many people for hundreds of years, so much so that the first automated chess playing machine, “The Mechanical Turk” was built in 1770! ...

Pong is a table tennis-themed game that Atari originally released in 1972. It was apparently the first commercially successful computer game and a key part of establishing the computer gaming industry. ...

Tetris is a computer game that has been around since 1985 and has appeared on many platforms since then. It is one of the best selling computer games of all time. Fundamentally is is quite a simple game. The player completes horizontal lines along the bottom of the screen by fitting together shapes that descend from the top of the screen. Completed lines disappear, earning the player points. The game ends when the uncleared lines reach the top of the screen. ...