The first video game was invented by Willy Higginbotham. Willy was no teenage computer wizkid, however.

Everyone loves board games, right? Right? I mean, we all have fond memories of playing with our kids, parents, Uncles, Aunts and friends, don’t we? Actually, when you stop and think about it, you probably didn’t like playing board games as much as you thought. Now, its all coming back.

Every invention has an official birth date. For the Cube this date is 1974 when the first working prototype came into being and a patent application was initially drafted. The place was Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The inventor's name is now a household word, Rubik's Cube.

Although 1974 marks the inauguration of the Cube, the processes that led to the invention began a few years earlier. At the time, Erno Rubik was a lecturer at the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest.

1) The game "Twister" was originally called "Pretzel", and it was invented by Reyn Guyer, who also invented the Nerf Ball.

2) Mr. Potato Head was the first children's toy advertised on television. In 1987, Mr. Potato Head went politically correct and gave up his standard issue plastic pipe at the American Cancer Society's Great American Smoke out event, giving it to then Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop.

The picturesque fire shows which nowadays we can often see in clubs or just in the streets of the night cities will never lose their attractiveness, especially for European people.