6 episodes
Obsessive Compulsive Gaming Devin McConnell
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- Leisure
A podcast series that tells a narrative history of the video game industry.
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Behind the Screens
In the fifth episode we stop to take a look at the technology that made video games possible.
Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork.
Check out his work at @JimmyCertified
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Tyler DeWitt - The Cathode Ray Tube Experiment
eHow - How Does a Cathode Ray Tube Work?
US Navy - The Cathode Ray Tube "How It Works"
Science Encyclopedia - CRT Phosphors
Circuits Today - CRT Assembly
Evil Mad Scientist - Resurrecting Tennis for Two
GamePayne - Tennis For Two
EDSAC Replica Project - The VDU Screens
Wikipedia - Types of Oscilloscopes
Dana Lee - How Analog Video Works
Technology Connections - How Analog Television Works
Technology Connections - How Analog Color TV Works
Wikipedia - Shadow Mask
Wikipedia - Horizontal Blanking Interval
Wikipedia - Vertical Blanking Interval
Wikipedia - NTSC Standard
Benj Edwards - Inside the Magnavox Odyssey
Pong-Story - The Odyssey Modules
Smithsonian - Heathkit IG-62 Alignment Generator
Dr PhysicsA - Introduction to Logic Gates
element14 - How Flip Flops Work
Simply Electronics - Potentiometers
Wikipedia - Photodiode
Boojakascha - Light Gun Review
Wikipedia - Flip Flop Circuit
Wikipedia - Diode Transistor Logic
Wikipedia - Logic Gate -
Send in the Clones
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
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--> 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 -
Baer and Bushnell
The third episode in the OCG History series takes a look at how video games went from the side projects of engineers to a fledgling consumer industry thanks largely to the work of two pioneers.
Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the shows artwork
Check out his work at @JimmyCertified
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--> Baer
Ralph Baer - Timeline
Ralph Baer - How Video Game Industry Began
Wikipedia - Ralph Baer
They Create Worlds - The Baer Essentials
Smithsonian - The Brown Box
Smithsonian - Brown Box Prototypes
HowStuffWorks - Who Invented Video Games?
The Brown Box
They Create Worlds - A Magnavox Odyssey
YouTube - Baer and Harrison Play
YouTube - Meet Ralph Baer
--> Bushnell
They Create Worlds - The Book of Nolan
Slate - The Invention of Pong
PBS - Nolan Bushnell Profile
PinRepair - Computer Space
They Create Worlds - A Nutty Idea
Technologizer - The Dawn of Arcades
They Create Worlds - The Stars are Right
They Create Worlds - Plans in Motion
Arcade Historian - Galaxy Game
Vintage Computing - Ted Dabney
Wired - Inside Story of Pong and Atari
Gamasutra - History of Pong
Michael Currant - History of Syzygy
Pong-Story - History of Pong
Arcade Historian - Overflowing Pong Myth
YouTube - Computer Space
YouTube - Atari Pong -
The First Video Game
The second episode of the OCG History series seeks to answer a very simple question that most people should be able to answer, but can't. What was the first video game?
Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork.
Check out his work at @JimmyCertified
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Video Game Timeline - National Museum of Play
What Was the First Video Game?
Nimatron
Nim Machine
NIMROD
CRT Amusement Device
Bertie the Brain
Tennis For Two
Noughts and Crosses
Profiles of Early Games
Turing's Chess Program
Kasparov vs Turbochamp
Shannon's Chess Program
1950s Computer Games
Checkers and Chess
Background on MIT
The MIT Computer Club
Blackjack on IBM 700
Spacewar!
Cultural Impact of Spacewar!
Profile of Spacewar!
Video - The Bouncing Ball Demo
Video - Tennis For Two
Video - The First Video Game -
Computers and Arcades
The first episode of the OCG History series begins by examining the two industries that were the direct precursors to video games, the arcade industry and the computer industry.
Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork.
Check out his work at @JimmyCertified
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--> Computers:
Programmed Puppet Show
Heron of Alexandria
Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace
19th Century Computing
The Analytical Engine
Jacquard's Loom
Herman Hollerith
Tabulation Machines
The Cathode Ray Tube
Claude Shannon's Thesis
Turing & Shannon
"Turing Complete"
The Z3
The Colossus
ENIAC
Eckert-Mauchly
Apollo Guidance Computer
AGC: How It Worked
--> Arcades:
Midway Plaisance
Penny Arcades
Founding of Kasco
Sega's Periscope
Sega's Killer Shark
Sega's Duck Hunt
Nintendo's Wild Gunman -