Nov 15, 2006
89 min
Full-HD

Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games (2006)

CNBC examines the history of the video game industry from the first tennis game developed for an oscilloscope to the Atari and video arcade game boom of the early 1980s. It looks at the history of electronic game all the way up to the current Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox game systems.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

Nolan Bushnell

Himself - Video Game Engineer

Bill Griffeth

Himself - Narrator

Ralph H. Baer

Himself - Magnavox Odyssey Inventor

Howard Lincoln

Himself - Former Chairman, Nintendo of America

Michael Katz

Himself - Former President, Sega America

Tom Kalinske

Himself - Former President, Sega America

Kaz Hirai

Himself - President, Sony Computer Entertainment of America

Al Alcorn

Himself - Pong Inventor

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