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Battle for the Living Room: from Atari to the Console Wars
The next generation of gaming is about to arrive, which makes this the perfect time to take a look at how we got here. Join the boys for a guided tour through the cutthroat history of gaming, and the battle for the living room.
In this episode:
Edward Uhler Condon and the NIMATRON
Ferranti and the NIMROD
Ralph Baer and the Brown Box
Magnavox and the Odyssey
Atari and the VCS (2600)
Activision
1983 Atari Shock, ET, and subpar PacMan
The rise of Nintendo
Famicon becomes the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
NES becomes the Super NES
TurboGrafx-16 and the 16-bit revolution
The Atari Jaguar…
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