Over the years I’ve worked in the business software industry, I’ve had the pleasure of working on and off with a particular friend I’ve known since high school in the 1980s.

One day, just a little while back, while working together in a meeting with engineering and operations teams, my friend used the phrase “Let’s look behind the rocks and see if there are any scorpio...

My favorite old school game has got to be 1962’s Spacewar! Spacewar! may well be the first true video game ever made. Developed by Steve Russel and collaborators at MIT. This 2-player space combat video game was played on a circular monochrome vector graphics display with “wrap-around” math.

When the Spaceship went off the side of the screen, it re-emerged on the oppos...

Recovering the Past: “Caleb Adventure” Brings Retro Heroism to the MSX! Retro gaming fans have a new mission: infiltrate the castle of Baron Buuu-hahaha and reclaim a stolen legacy. In the newly released title Caleb Adventure, players step into the shoes of a hero on a deeply personal quest. The villainous Baron Buuu-hahaha has absconded with Paulo’s prized MSX cartridge col...

Professional casino play does not run on luck stories. It runs on numbers, discipline, and timing. Strong players do not judge themselves by one good night or one ugly session. They look at decision quality, money control, and how well they hold their nerve when the pressure rises.

That is why the same names keep coming up in serious circles. Expected value, stake sizi...

The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) located at the University of Cambridge’s Mathematical Laboratory would be the first computer hardware to host a “game” developed by Alexander Shafto “Sandy” Douglas, a British Professor of Computer Science. The EDSAC was one of the first computers that could be both read and written to with an array of three 35×16 dot-...