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The History of Video Games — 286 episodes

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1983 - Spy Hunter
2

1983 - Donkey Kong 3
3

1983 - Crossbow
4

1983 - MSX
5

1983 - Track & Field
6

1983 - M.A.C.H. 3
7

1983 - Odyssey 3

E
8

1983 - Hunchback
9

1983 - Cosmic Chasm
10

1983 - Ultima III
11

1983 - Best of the Vectrex
12

1983 - Famicom
13

1983 - Bomberman
14

1983 - SG-1000
15

1983 - Dragon's Lair
16

1983 - Bega's Battle
17

1983 - Wizardry III
18

1983 - Astron Belt
19

1983 - Star Wars
20

1983 - The Third Generation of Home Consoles
21

1983 - Foot Craz
22

1983 - Games Workshop
23

1983 - Mappy
24

2025 - Year in Review
25

1983 - Mario Bros.
26

1983 - Food Fight
27

1983 - Gyruss
28

1983 - Wacko
29

1983 - Sinistar
30

1983 - Goodbye Commodore PET!
31

1983 - Congo Bongo
32

1983 - Birth of the Internet
33

1983 - The Dark Age of Video Gaming
34

1982 - The Game Awards
35

1982 - Sprite Hall of Fame
36

1982 - The End of the Golden Age....E.T.
37

1982 - Popeye
38

1982 - Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
39

1982 - Xevious
40

1982 - Frontline
41

1982 - Vectrex
42

1982 - Microsoft Flight Simulator
43

1982 - Atari 5200
44

1982 - Pooyan
45

1982 - Q*bert
46

1982 - Satan's Hollow
47

1982 - Super Pac-Man
48

1982 - Pengo
49

1982 - Pitfall!
50

1982 - Joust
51

1982 - Donkey Kong Jr.
52

1982 - Commodore 64
53

1982 - Dragon 32
54

2025 - Wes Minicast
55

1982 - Colecovision
56

1982 - The Empire Strikes Back
57

2024 - Year in Review!
58

1982 - Pole Position
59

1982 - Subroc-3D
60

1982 - Tomy Tutor
61

1982 - The Adventures of Robby Roto!
62

1982 - End of the Microvision
63

1982 - Moon Patrol
64

1982 - Utopia
65

1982 - The First Dual Screen Handheld!
66

1982 - Emerson Arcadia 2001
67

1982 - Jack the Giantkiller
68

1982 - Mermaid
69

2024 - Ben Releases an Album
70

1982 - Dig Dug
71

1982 - ZX Spectrum
72

1982 - Loco-Motion
73

1982 - Pac-Man (The Bad One)
74

1982 - 3D Graphics in 1982!
75

1982 - Episode 200!
76

1982 - Pick Axe Pete!
77

1982 - MAX Machine
78

1982 - Telengard
79

1982 - Zaxxon
80

1982 - Ms. Pac-Man
81

Music-Cast 3
82

1981 - The Game Awards
83

1981 - Swashbuckler
84

1981 - BBC Micro
85

1981 - Space Cruiser
86

1981 - Jump Bug
87

1981 - Thief
88

1981 - Turtles

E
89

1981 - Bosconian
90

1981 - CreatiVision
91

1981 - Turbo
92

1981 - Tempest
93

1981 - Castle Wolfenstein
94

1981 - The Dragon's Eye
95

1981 - Galaga
96

2023 - End of Year Minicast!
97

1981 - IBM PC
98

1981 - Eastern Front (1941)
99

1981 - Armored Car
100

1981 - K.C. Munchkin
101

1981 - Donkey Kong
102

1981 - Epoch Cassette Vision
103

1981 - Ultima & Rogue!
104

1981 - Centipede
105

1981 - Frogger
106

1981 - Minicast
107

1981 - End of the Channel F
108

1981 - Space Odyssey
109

1981 - The First Laptop
110

1981 - Atari's Big Sequels

E
111

1981 - Cranston Manor
112

1981 - ZX-81
113

1981 - Entex Select-A-Game

E
114

1981 - Mayday!!

E
115

1981 - Scramble
116

1981 - Terranean
117

1981 - Defender
118

1981 - VTech's Time & Fun
119

1981 - Pulsar
120

2023 - Summer Games Minicast
121

1980 - The Game Awards
122

1980 - The DECO Cassette System
123

1980 - Zork
124

1980 - Phoenix

E
125

1980 - Mission Asteroid
126

1980 - Wizard of Wor
127

1980 - Space Panic
128

1980 - Berzerk
129

1980 - Akalabeth
130

1980 - Crazy Climber
131

1980 - TRS-80 Coco
132

1980 - Odyssey: The Compleat Adventure
133

1980 - Star Castle
134

1980 - The Acorn Atom
135

1980 - Wizard and the Princess
136

1980 - Elektor TV Games Computer
137

1980 - Activision
138

1980 - Moon Cresta
139

1980 - Pac-Man
140

1980 - The VIC-20
141

1980 - King & Balloon
142

1980 - Missile Command
143

1980 - Mystery House
144

1980 - Megatack
145

1980 - Speak & Rescue
146

1980 - Game & Watch
147

1980 - Let's Rob A Bank!
148

1980 - Return of the Scrolling Playfield
149

1980 - The First System Seller
150

1980 - Samurai
151

1980 - First Puzzle Platformer?
152

1980 - The First Text Tree
153

1980 - Eamon in '80
154

1980 - The Intellivision Launches
155

Minicast - Ben Gets Injured
156

1980 - A Game to Rival Galaxian
157

1980 - Dracula Hunter
158

1979 - The Game Awards
159

1979 - Futurewar
160

1979 - Super Vision 8000
161

1979 - The Atari 8-Bit Is Here To Stay
162

1979 - Racing Towards '80
163

1979 - Asteroids
164

1979 - APF's Imagination Machine
165

1979 - Atari's Home Computer
166

1979 - The Microvision
167

1979 - The Intellivision
168

1979 - Avatar
169

1979 - The TI-99
170

1979 - Warrior
171

1979 - Sheriff
172

1979 - Galaxian
173

1979 - Eamon
174

1979 - Superman
175

1979 - Space Invaders On A Console
176

1979 - The Exidy Sorcerer

E
177

1979 - Temple of Apshai
178

1979 - Lunar Lander (Again!)
179

1979 - Dungeon of Death

E
180

1979 - Weird Games Are Great
181

1979 - So Many RPGs!
182

1979 - Our 100th Episode!
183

1979 - Fairchild Gets Bought Out
184

1979 - The First Game To Use 2 TVs
185

1979 - Atari Basketball
186

1979 - Space Warp
187

1979 - Side Trak
188

1979 - The First 'Eat The Dots' Game
189

1979 - Atari 2600 Special
190

1979 - Starhawk
191

1979 - Speed Freak
192

1979 - Advances in Handhelds
193

1979 - Pirate's Adventure
194

1979 - Video Pinball
195

1979 - Fortress
196

1978 - The Game Awards
197

1978 - The VC 4000
198

1978 - Basketball Done Right
199

1979 - A Wes Mini-Cast
200

1978 - The Odyssey 2
201

1978 - Doomsday
202

1978 - The Videobrain is Pretty Good
203

1978 - Unisonic Champion 2711
204

1978 - APF MP-1000
205

1978 - Dead Eye
206

1978 - Atari Football
207

1978 - Game of Dungeons
208

1978 - Field Trip 1
209

1978 - Beneath Apple Manor
210

1978 - Computer Games Galore
211

1978 - Bob Bishop Is Back
212

1978 - The Music-Cast 2
213

1978 - Bally Astrocade Goodness
214

1978 - Alto Trek
215

1978 - Freecell

E
216

1978 - Tank War
217

1978 - Space Invaders
218

1978 - Fire Truck
219

1978 - Treasure Hunt
220

1978 - 3-D Bowling
221

1978 - Bally Astrocade
222

1978 - RCA Studio III
223

1978 - Visicom Com-100
224

1978 - Fairchild is Back

E
225

1978 - Mattel is Back
226

1978 - Sky Raider
227

1978 - Star Wars
228

1978 - Ultra Tank
229

1978 - A New Year At Last
230

1977 - The Videobrain Family Computer
231

1977 - The Music-Cast
232

1977 - The Telstar Arcade (Coleco)
233

1977 - Oubliette
234

1977 - Fairchild's Final Games of '77
235

1977 - Space Wars
236

1977 - The Atari 2600
237

1977 - Super Bug
238

1977 - Who's The Best Developer?
239

1977 - Starship 1

E
240

1977 - The Stunt Cycle Console
241

1977 - The Apple II
242

1977 - Nintendo's First Console
243

1977 - The Worst Games So Far?
244

1977 - PC-50x
245

1977 - Guided Missile
246

1977 - The Podcast Turns 1!
247

1977 - Breakout on Console?!
248

1977 - Boot Hill

E
249

1977 - The Commodore PET

E
250

1977 - RCA Studio II
251

1977 - Chromemco Dazzler
252

1976 - TARG
253

1976 - Odyssey 500
254

1976 - The Fairchild Channel F

E
255

1976 - Sprint 2
256

1976 - Blockade & Night Driver
257

1976 - Colossal Cave Adventure
258

1976 - The First Handheld
259

1976 - Cops N' Robbers

E
260

1976 - Breakout!
261

1976 - Death Race!
262

1976 - Sea Wolf
263

1976 - Bombs Away

E
264

1976 - Pong in a Chip
265

1976 - The First FPS Tank Game

E
266

1975 - Maneater (AKA Play Inside A Shark's Mouth)

E
267

1975 - The First RPG
268

1975 - The First Boss Fight!
269

1975 - The First Dungeon Crawler
270

1975 - The First Game With Human Vs Human Violence!
271

1975 - A Chicago Coin Surprise
272

1975 - Time to Race!
273

1975 - The Return of the Odyssey!
274

1974 - Consoles in 1974
275

1974 - The First Game With Scrolling Graphics
276

1974 - The Lame Duck Episode
277

1974 - First FPS Game

E
278

1974 - The First Human Sprites
279

Episode 8 - Saying Goodbye to the Odyssey
280

Episode 7 - Pong Era Pt 2
281

Episode 6 - The Pong Era Pt 1
282

Episode 5 - Magnavox Odyssey Pt 2
283

Episode 4 - Magnavox Odyssey Pt 1
284

Episode 3 - Early History Pt 3
285

Episode 2 - Early History Pt 2
286

Episode 1 - Early History Pt 1