008 - Video Game Consoles (Intro And Gen 1)
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
