Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games
Nov 15 2006
•1h 29m
•Documentary
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.
Cast
See allNolan Bushnell
Himself - Video Game Engineer
Bill Griffeth
Himself - Narrator
Ralph H. Baer
Himself - Magnavox Odyssey Inventor
Howard Lincoln
Himself - Former Chairman, Nintendo of America
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