Send in the Clones
from Obsessive Compulsive Gaming Hosted by Devin McConnell
In the fourth episode of the OCG History series follows Atari and Magnavox as they chart the waters of new markets and spawn the first generation of home and arcade video games. Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork. Check out his work at @JimmyCertified ===== Sources ===== --> Magnavox Odyssey They Create Worlds - A Magnavox Odyssey LifeWire - The Magnavox Odyssey Wikipedia - Magnavox Odyssey DigitalSpy - Look Back at the Odyssey Kotaku - Worlds First Shooting Game YouTube - Magnavox Odyssey Promotional Video --> The Pong Clones Arcade Museum - Games of 1973 Arcade Museum - Games of 1974 Arcade Museum - Games of 1975 Franklin Institute - Transistors to Microprocessors Wikipedia - Gun Fight Armchair Empire - Atari: The Lost Years Arcade Historian - First Ten Coin-Op Games Arcade Historian - Year By Year 1973-1975 Arcade Historian - Etymology of "Video Game" Game Studies - The Foundation of "Geemu" 8-Bit Central - Atari's "Gotcha" Controversy IEEE - Atari Alum Talk Tall Tales --> Home Pong Atari Museum - Home Pong Pong-Story - Pong in a Chip Wikipedia - Epoch TV Tennis Pong-Story - Make It Yourself Pong Pong-Story - Videmaster Home TV Game Pong-Story - Odyssey 100 & 200 Pong-Story - Video 2000 Pong-Story - Tele-Spiel Pong-Story - Coleco Telstar Geekiverse - Interview with Gilbert Harrower Wikipedia - AY-3-8500
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