DO YOU KNOW Who introduced the Pause button to video games? The short answer is Gerald ‘Jerry‘ A. Lawson (1 December, 1940 – 9 April, 2011) an African-American engineer and video game pioneer. Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc was founded in 1957 and was a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument. It became a pioneer in […]
Have you ever wondered why cards are shuffled before the start of any card game? For math nerds or simply curious citizens — it’s due in no small part to the number of order possibilities in a 52-card deck (52 factorial or the number 8 with 67 zeros) after it to be exact! It’s probable […]
DID YOU KNOW The first Snake game was published by Nokia for its monochrome phones and introduced on the Nokia 6110. The phone shipped with three embedded games: Memory, Logic and Snake. Snake was the only game that was playable or considered fun by phone users. It was programmed by Taneli Armanto in 1997.
