You might not recognize Aaron Fechter by his name but for sure you recognize some of his creations. First of all, one of his companies was part of the merger that created Chuck E. Cheese’s, a chain of pizza entertaining restaurants worth close to one billion dollars. Then, he created one […]
Sometime ago in our history someone thought of inventing a card game revolving around the number 21. Don’t know why 21 and always thought it had something to do with Americans and their ‘you cannot buy drinks under 21’ policy. However it seems that the first written reference of the game […]
You never forget a game that made history. I remember when I first discovered an Arcade machine for SpaceInvaders, the first shoot ‘em up game I played. It was a game room close to my school and for months to come a machine like the one below was where all my […]
I was around ten years old when I received one of my first portable game devices. It was rectangular, had a small screen, a few buttons and on its back the shape was curved a bit just to allow your fingers to fit in there and hold the device better. There […]
‘Ophiocordyceps unilateralis’ feels like the name of a dinosaur species. Yet it’s the name of a parasitic fungus that in short transforms ants into zombie ants. You heard it right, this is one of the first recognized cases of zombie-like behavior in animals. An unknowingly ant inhales the spores of this […]
Easter eggs are eggs (duh!) often dyed and painted that are given during the traditional Easter celebration. As Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from his tomb, Easter eggs are a symbol of a tombstone which is ‘lifted’ and life emerges (i.e. the chick) – that’s the reasoning they’ve been used […]
I was a little over 18 when I signed up for my exam to take the driver license. The theory went well and the next step was the psychological evaluation. I thought it was going to be a boring experience but it was actually a very pleasant evaluation, I basically played […]
Sometime in the 9th century Russia was ‘hit’ by a game that would become one of the most popular games in the modern world. It was a game of wit where 2 players moved pieces on a board in a turn-based scenario. That game was called chess and it is to […]
In 1985 Nintendo released Super Mario Bros, a game that would become world’s second most popular game of all times (to date, on the first place being Wii Sports). It was a sequel where 2 brothers, Mario and Luigi, traveled through the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Toadstool from the evil […]
In May 1980 at the popular horse race ‘Irish 2,000 Guineas’ a jockey by the name of Christy Roche won with the help of his horse Nikoli. Three months later Maki Kaji, a Japanese entrepreneur fond of horse-racing, started Nikoli (nikori) Co., Ltd., a company that would start publishing without interruption the […]
