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In the fifth episode we stop to take a look at the technology that made video games possible. Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork. Check out his work at @JimmyCertified ===== Sources ===== Tyler DeWitt - The Cathode Ray Tube Experiment eHow - How Does a Cathode Ray Tube Work? US Navy - The Cathode Ray Tube "How It Works" Science Encyclopedia - CRT Phosphors Circuits Today - CRT Assembly Evil Mad Scientist - Resurrecting Tennis for Two GamePayne - Tennis For Two EDSAC Replica Project - The VDU Screens Wikipedia - Types of Oscilloscopes Dana Lee - How Analog Video Works Technology Connections - How Analog Television Works Technology Connections - How Analog Color TV Works Wikipedia - Shadow Mask Wikipedia - Horizontal Blanking Interval Wikipedia - Vertical Blanking Interval Wikipedia - NTSC Standard Benj Edwards - Inside the Magnavox Odyssey Pong-Story - The Odyssey Modules Smithsonian - Heathkit IG-62 Alignment Generator Dr PhysicsA - Introduction to Logic Gates element14 - How Flip Flops Work Simply Electronics - Potentiometers Wikipedia - Photodiode Boojakascha - Light Gun Review Wikipedia - Flip Flop Circuit Wikipedia - Diode Transistor Logic Wikipedia - Logic Gate

In the fourth episode of the OCG History series follows Atari and Magnavox as they chart the waters of new markets and spawn the first generation of home and arcade video games. Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork. Check out his work at @JimmyCertified ===== Sources ===== --> Magnavox Odyssey They Create Worlds - A Magnavox Odyssey LifeWire - The Magnavox Odyssey Wikipedia - Magnavox Odyssey DigitalSpy - Look Back at the Odyssey Kotaku - Worlds First Shooting Game YouTube - Magnavox Odyssey Promotional Video --> The Pong Clones Arcade Museum - Games of 1973 Arcade Museum - Games of 1974 Arcade Museum - Games of 1975 Franklin Institute - Transistors to Microprocessors Wikipedia - Gun Fight Armchair Empire - Atari: The Lost Years Arcade Historian - First Ten Coin-Op Games Arcade Historian - Year By Year 1973-1975 Arcade Historian - Etymology of "Video Game" Game Studies - The Foundation of "Geemu" 8-Bit Central - Atari's "Gotcha" Controversy IEEE - Atari Alum Talk Tall Tales --> Home Pong Atari Museum - Home Pong Pong-Story - Pong in a Chip Wikipedia - Epoch TV Tennis Pong-Story - Make It Yourself Pong Pong-Story - Videmaster Home TV Game Pong-Story - Odyssey 100 & 200 Pong-Story - Video 2000 Pong-Story - Tele-Spiel Pong-Story - Coleco Telstar Geekiverse - Interview with Gilbert Harrower Wikipedia - AY-3-8500

The third episode in the OCG History series takes a look at how video games went from the side projects of engineers to a fledgling consumer industry thanks largely to the work of two pioneers. Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the shows artwork Check out his work at @JimmyCertified ===== Sources ===== --> Baer Ralph Baer - Timeline Ralph Baer - How Video Game Industry Began Wikipedia - Ralph Baer They Create Worlds - The Baer Essentials Smithsonian - The Brown Box Smithsonian - Brown Box Prototypes HowStuffWorks - Who Invented Video Games? The Brown Box They Create Worlds - A Magnavox Odyssey YouTube - Baer and Harrison Play YouTube - Meet Ralph Baer --> Bushnell They Create Worlds - The Book of Nolan Slate - The Invention of Pong PBS - Nolan Bushnell Profile PinRepair - Computer Space They Create Worlds - A Nutty Idea Technologizer - The Dawn of Arcades They Create Worlds - The Stars are Right They Create Worlds - Plans in Motion Arcade Historian - Galaxy Game Vintage Computing - Ted Dabney Wired - Inside Story of Pong and Atari Gamasutra - History of Pong Michael Currant - History of Syzygy Pong-Story - History of Pong Arcade Historian - Overflowing Pong Myth YouTube - Computer Space YouTube - Atari Pong

The second episode of the OCG History series seeks to answer a very simple question that most people should be able to answer, but can't. What was the first video game? Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork. Check out his work at @JimmyCertified ===== Sources ===== Video Game Timeline - National Museum of Play What Was the First Video Game? Nimatron Nim Machine NIMROD CRT Amusement Device Bertie the Brain Tennis For Two Noughts and Crosses Profiles of Early Games Turing's Chess Program Kasparov vs Turbochamp Shannon's Chess Program 1950s Computer Games Checkers and Chess Background on MIT The MIT Computer Club Blackjack on IBM 700 Spacewar! Cultural Impact of Spacewar! Profile of Spacewar! Video - The Bouncing Ball Demo Video - Tennis For Two Video - The First Video Game

The first episode of the OCG History series begins by examining the two industries that were the direct precursors to video games, the arcade industry and the computer industry. Special thanks to Jimmy Bogardus for creating the show's artwork. Check out his work at @JimmyCertified ===== Sources ===== --> Computers: Programmed Puppet Show Heron of Alexandria Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace 19th Century Computing The Analytical Engine Jacquard's Loom Herman Hollerith Tabulation Machines The Cathode Ray Tube Claude Shannon's Thesis Turing & Shannon "Turing Complete" The Z3 The Colossus ENIAC Eckert-Mauchly Apollo Guidance Computer AGC: How It Worked --> Arcades: Midway Plaisance Penny Arcades Founding of Kasco Sega's Periscope Sega's Killer Shark Sega's Duck Hunt Nintendo's Wild Gunman