How do you control the characters in your video games? In the beginning it was Gunpei Yokoi who imaginated how LCD technology in a calculator might be used to create a miniature game.
The D-pad
- Gail Penney
- 5 July 2018
- Games , Video
BAM! Daphne Bavelier
- Gail Penney
- 28 June 2018
- Games , Video
How do fast-paced video games affect the brain? Step into the lab with cognitive researcher Daphne Bavelier to hear surprising news about how video games, even action-packed shooter games, can help us learn, focus and fascinatingly, multi-task. Stereotypically, first person shooters have a poor reputation when it comes to how they affect gamers.
Space Invaders
- Gail Penney
- 28 June 2018
- Games , Video
The game credited with starting the ‘Golden Age’ of arcade gaming turns 40 this month (June 2018). Bikkuri! Wow! Space Invaders is the two-dimensional shooter game where the player controls a laser cannon by moving it horizontally across the bottom of the screen and firing at the descending aliens.
Jerry Lawson
- Gail Penney
- 30 May 2018
- Games , Video
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 […]