Games & gaming

The first stories in this collection are on their way.

Coming up

• A Cosmic Ray May Have Voted in Belgium and Moved Mario 2003 · Schaerbeek, Brussels / 2013 · a Super Mario 64 speedrun
• A Defence Engineer Invented Home Gaming at a Bus Stop 1966–1972 · Sanders Associates, Nashua, New Hampshire
• A Fourth-Grade Teacher Wrote the First Story Game 1964 · Westchester County, New York (IBM 7090)
• A Mobile Game That Mapped How We Lose Our Way 2016 · UCL, London and players in every country
• Atari Got Nintendo's Secret Code From the Copyright Office 1988–1992 · US Copyright Office and Federal Circuit court
• Belgium Ruled That Loot Boxes Were Gambling 25 Apr 2018 · Belgian Gaming Commission, Brussels
• Doom's Speed Came From a 1969 Air Force Report 1969–1993 · US Air Force lab to id Software, Mesquite, Texas
• Elite Fit Eight Galaxies Into a Home Computer 1984 · Cambridge, England (BBC Micro)
• Gamers Solved a Virus Protein That Stumped Scientists 2011 · University of Washington, Seattle (players worldwide)
• How Doom and Quake Paid for the AI Revolution 1993–2012 · Texas, California and a Toronto bedroom
• It Runs Doom: From Pregnancy Tests to Gut Bacteria 2020–2024 · Online, and a lab at MIT
• Mario's Clouds and Bushes Are the Same Drawing 1985 · Nintendo, Kyoto, Japan