The start of a new series about video game consoles. In the first episode we talk about the birth of the industry and the first generation of consoles. Pong! Glorious Pong!

Subjects Discussed:

Pinball

Cathode-Ray Tube amusement device

Tennis For Two

Spacewar!

Ralph Baer

The Brown Box

Nolan Bushnell

Ampex

Ted Dabney

Nutting Associates

Computer Space

Syzygy Engineering

Atari

Al Alcorn

Pong

Pong clones

First Generation of Video Game Consoles

Magnovox Odyssey

Magnovox vs Atari

Pong craze

Early days of arcades

Home Pong consoles

Magnovox Odyssey Series

Telstar Series

Video Game Crash of 1977

Episode ID: 1000386135984

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Release Date: 04/06/2017, 13:15:24