If someone asked you to name the very first video game console, what would you say? The Nintendo Entertainment System? No, that launched in 1983, well into the game industry's life. The Atari 2600?

Score a refurbished Blu-ray player on the cheap or spend a little extra on a new model with your choice of movies. Mediocre movies, yes, but overall, you still come out ahead. Rick Broida Senior ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Tennessee — Before Nintendo and Atari, before pixels danced across screens in arcades and bedrooms, before gaming became a multi-billion-dollar industry, it began in silence. No sound ...