1 hr 14 min

Send in the Clones Obsessive Compulsive Gaming

    • Video Games

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

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

1 hr 14 min