Old Is The New New

Canadian wise men discover the secret of pottery: deconstructing the Civilization tech tree.

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Is only one of five centuries of board games at the always beautiful and enjoyable BibliOdyssey.

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The unknowability of Ms Pac-Man; Major Wesely and Vietnam; the classic arcade “kill screen” and What Lies Beyond.

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A course I’d like to teach on gaming, simulation, and history.

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NYT on Gygax: “Gary Gygax died last week and the universe did not collapse. This surprises me a little bit, because he built it.”

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Anyone who will get that reference has already heard, but: Gary Gygax is dead, alas.

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Henry Jenkins offers a Boston-centric history of video games, from Spacewar to Guitar Hero.

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The game was good, but the box art was classic: Two bloggers provide a history and an overdue appreciation of the diabolical couple that conquered our world with a highly reflective black table and a sequence of four colored pegs.

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Technology & Culture reviews an exhibit of video game history at the Science Museum in London.

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How I spent 1993. Or, why computer games are not effective tools for teaching history and how they could be.

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