Comedy
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