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Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games
Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games
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Game On! The Unauthorized History of Video Games

2006
Directed byBob Waldman
1h 29m

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.

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Nolan BushnellHimself - Video Game EngineerBill GriffethHimself - Narrator
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Ralph H. Baer
Himself - Magnavox Odyssey Inventor
Howard LincolnHimself - Former Chairman, Nintendo of America
Michael KatzHimself - Former President, Sega America
Tom KalinskeHimself - Former President, Sega America
Kaz HiraiHimself - President, Sony Computer Entertainment of America
Al AlcornHimself - Pong Inventor
Alan MillerHimself - Atari Game Designer
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GENRES
Documentary
STATUSReleased
RATING
7.0

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