The Sporting Life – By Leonard Herman, the Father of Video Game History
Since the beginning of videogame history, sports have always played a major role. Higinbotham’s Tennis For Two, Baer’s video table tennis, and Bushnell & Dabney’s Pong are also video versions of tennis or table tennis. But no matter how much you tell yourself that...The Game Scholar: Keyboard Creations – By Leonard Herman
Labo, the do-it-yourself kits that released on April 20, 2018, are pure genius on the part of Nintendo. They’re somehow breathing new life into the Nintendo Switch, which right now is burning bright like a phoenix, while teaching kids (and adults) the principles of...The Game Scholar: Revisiting History – By Leonard Herman
During my freshman year of college I took two semesters of a compre- hensive world history course. For the first semester class I had to purchase an expensive, hardcover history book, which was fine. However, when I returned for the second semester, which was being...The Game Scholar: The Nintendo Odyssey?? – By Leonard Herman
A question had arisen regarding whether a statement in my book, Phoenix IV: The History of the Videogame Industry, was correct or not. The book stated that Nintendo had imported the first videogame console, the Magnavox Odyssey, into Japan. Shortly after the book’s...Plugin by Social Author Bio