Games in science fiction . Games Games are as old as civilization itself.
Game players are a resourceful lot.
The earliest games were probably played with common objects like sticks and stones, and once it was invented, string. Evidence of these games may be lost to the ages, but archeologists digging up the cradle of civilization have unearthed game-related artifacts thousands and thousands of years old. Because down the street from the digs those very same games are still being played. Games are amazingly resilient, almost alive in their ability to replicate themselves across borders, across language barriers, across centuries, often with no obvious agency championing their survival. Of course, not everyone likes to play actual games.