Rise of the Videogame: Level 1

November 21st, 2007 by scott topic

Discovery: Rise of the Videogame

Discovery Channel premiered episode one of Rise of the Video Game tonight, a documentary about the history of gaming. I really liked this first episode, which covered Spacewar! up until Pacman. They interviewed such illustrious figures as Peter Moore, IGN’s Peer Schneider, Alexey Pajitnov (the Tetris guy) and Nolan Bushnell, the legendary founder of Atari.

The highlight of the episode had to be the piece on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for Atari 2600. How great was it to see that?

E T for Atari 2600

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