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Back in the day, people left their homes to play video games! Hosts discuss the rise of arcades and all the old school games: Space invaders, Asteroid...

Nintendo's long trek from playing cards to gaming monopoly. While most Americans thought video games were a fad, Nintendo was pushing their way to the...

The stunning rise and steep decline of Atari. Atari started the home video game, quickly becoming the fastest growing company in American history. In...

You won't believe the drama behind one of the best loved games of all-time. Tetris is not only one of the most universally loved games ever created, i...

The history of the bitter feud between Atari and Nintendo. In the high-stakes world of early console gaming, Nintendo knew it would have to think outs...

The trashcans of the past are stuffed with consoles that didn't catch on. From the Atari 5200 and the ill fated Nintendo Virtual Boy, to the Atari Jag...

More video game consoles that failed to attract fans. The continuing saga of consoles that couldn't cut the mustard. From the ill-fated and poorly con...

Remember when Sonic and Mario went head to head? Video game rivalries are no joke, especially considering the billions of dollars up for grabs for the...

Sex and violence in video games is a potent issue and has been for quite some time. It may surprise you to know that long before Grand Theft Auto and...

The story of an upstart leather company that took on a corporate titan. ColecoVision could've been the next big thing if it wasn't for some major prob...

This little computer rocked the gaming world. Back in the day, the Commodore 64 came screaming out of the gates into the waiting hands of gamers all o...

The arcade is back! You might not have noticed, but it returned to the gaming scene. After the advent of home gaming systems, many assumed the end of...

This rivalry tells us an important story about electronics in the 20th century. Based on the information that Sony accrued creating peripherals for th...

Game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has set the gold standard for gaming. If you play a fair amount of home video games, one thing you'll notice is that th...

Follow the various video game mascots during the late '80s to the late '90s. Video game mascots used to be all the rage in the late '80s to the late '...

Did you know that almost half of the world's gamers are women? Since the beginning, gaming has most often been associated with guys. Guys made the gam...

Meet the two most famous American game designers. While video game designers aren't rock stars, there were two who got about as close as game designer...

The Founding Fathers—the men who started it all. The video game industry is thought of as having started in the early '70s with Pong and other early a...

A history of gaming's unsung hero: the controller. While good hardware and creative software are both key, the controller is what actually connects th...

The Sega Dreamcast was one of the greatest game consoles ever released. Usually, the history of video game failures is pretty simple. Either the games...

Landmark lawsuits exploded as the video game industry struggled to define itself. In video games' early days, the law was struggling to figure out how...

Two students, without money or contacts, found their own way into the game business. In 1981, A couple of MIT students named Doug Macrae and Kevin Cur...