Gaming is huge, and it's boosting tech skills
22 September 2019 - 00:06
The year 1958 marked the debut of the world's first video game, Tennis for Two - a precursor to Pong. Developed by physicist William Higinbotham for a US government exhibition at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, it was one of the first computer games to use a graphical display and one of the first designed for pure entertainment instead of academic research. A lot has changed, with both technology and an entirely new gaming industry arising in the decades since...
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