It's an expression that originated in the works of Shakespeare. If someone is a piece of work, it means that he or she is a very unpleasant person or a bad person lacking morals, etc. Examples: He's a nasty piece of work, Carl. I'd avoid him if I were you.
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The history of video games actually goes back to the early 1960's when Ralph Baer, Steve Slug Russell, and Willy Higinbotham designed interactive games. The first was called Spacewar! and played on a DEC PDP-1 mainframe computer.