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The Rise of Computer Games, Part II: Digitizing Nerddom – Creatures of Thought


In the late 1960s and early 1970s, one could participate in a variety of (mostly novel) hobbies that all asked “what-if”: reading and watching science fiction (especially Star Trek), reading the wr…

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