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“You’re Not Useless” [CC]

Did you know that video games were being developed as early as 1940? In that year Edward U. Condon designed a game for the World’s Fair that pitted players against a computer in a traditional game called Nim (and the computer won 90% of the time). That’s thirty-two years before Pong came out (and forty years before Pac-Man, pictured above). Learn fun facts like this and more in the Strong Museum of Play’sVideo Game History Timeline.