Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games

The read

It runs a compact 1h 29m.

Synopsis

CNBC examines the history of the video game industry from the first tennis game developed for an oscilloscope to the Atari and video arcade game boom of the early 1980s. It looks at the history of electronic game all the way up to the current Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox game systems.

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Key crew

• Bob WaldmanDirector
• Bob WaldmanWriter

Cast

• Nolan BushnellHimself - Video Game Engineer
• Bill GriffethHimself - Narrator
• Ralph H. BaerHimself - Magnavox Odyssey Inventor
• Howard LincolnHimself - Former Chairman, Nintendo of America
• Michael KatzHimself - Former President, Sega America
• Tom KalinskeHimself - Former President, Sega America
• Kaz HiraiHimself - President, Sony Computer Entertainment of America
• Al AlcornHimself - Pong Inventor
• Alan MillerHimself - Atari Game Designer

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