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

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 ...

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 ...

Because of its proliferation, Spacewar is one of the most important and influential early video games, inspiring such releases as Galaxy Game, Computer Space, Star Control, and Asteroids.

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

Atari's first three video arcade games tell a fascinating story of rapid evolution. At left is the world's first video arcade game ("Computer Space" - 1971), the game it inspired ("Pong" - 1972 ...

Growing up gaming: The first five PC games I ever bought Classics like these made the mid-'80s a golden time to be a PC gamer.