On the other hand...not sci-fi, but a fact article in a sci-fi magazine. John Campbell was writing in Analog - or maybe it was still Astounding then - in 1962 or so, about the first computer gaming - students at MIT and the other big tech schools sneaking into the computer rooms to program the big mainframes (of course, all computers then were big mainframes, and vastly less powerful than what I'm typing on now) to play space war games.

Good article, but he ended it by saying "Of course, it'll never be very popular. The game board costs $100,000!"

Peter.