Send in the Clones Obsessive Compulsive Gaming
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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
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