Tennis for Two, arguably the first video game, was a two player game, as was its successor Pong. The first commercially available game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, had two controller inputs. Since then, most consoles have been shipped with two or four controller inputs.
Actress Beth Howland, who played Vera on 'Alice,' dies at 74. The actress who was best known for her role as a ditzy waitress on the 1970s and '80s CBS sitcom Alice has died. Beth Howland was 74. Her husband, actor Charles Kimbrough, tells The Associated Press that Howland died of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, on Dec. 31.
Emily Bergl is a British actress who portrays Beth Young on Desperate Housewives. Early life. Bergl was born in Milton Keynes, England to an Irish mother and an English architect father. She lacks a British accent because she moved to Chicago with her family when she was a child and attended Glenbrook South High School and Grinnell College, where she was the lead in several school productions.