(Image credit: Getty Images (designprojects) / Microsoft) Video games have come a long way since their inception, but you’ll find the furthest they’ve gone (so far) is the depths of space itself. No, we're not talking about video games set in space ; these actually went into space. From individual missions to tours aboard the ISS, video games have featured surprisingly often in the inky blackness of space. Astronauts are pretty busy when they're on a mission — it's quite expensive to get them into orbit, and the taxpayers don't want to spend millions of dollars so Victor Glover can play Halo in orbit — but they do occasionally get to take games into space. So strap in and prepare to blast off as we look at our brief history of sending video games to space. 1993 — Tetris becomes the 1st game In space (that we know of) (Image credit: Bonhams) In the early 90s, the newly born Russian Federation was still managing the world’s first modular space station, Mir.…