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What was the first video game?

What was the first video game?

Season 1 Episode 277 Published 3 weeks, 4 days ago
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Did you know the gigantic, 180-billion-dollar video game industry started as a tiny glowing green dot at a 1958 science fair? Join Mira and Finn on an epic quest to discover who really invented video games! We'll travel back in time to play Tennis for Two on a chunky metal radar box, and find out how a simple table tennis game called Pong was so popular that the arcade machine literally broke from being stuffed with way too many quarters! But it wasn't always a high score. Discover the dramatic Video Game Crash of 1983 when games almost disappeared forever! Who saved the day? A 100-year-old playing card company from Japan called Nintendo, armed with a jumping, mustache-wearing plumber named Super Mario! From the addictive falling blocks of Tetris and the creature-catching adventures of Pokemon, all the way to the shocking truth that the very first version of Minecraft was built in just six days, this episode is packed with mind-blowing gaming facts! Press start and jump into this amazing history adventure!
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