Episode 1328
Video games at 50: a cultural history
Fifty years on from the launch of the first commercial home video game console, John Wills discusses the history of the gaming industry
HistoryExtra podcast · Immediate
April 27, 202247m 31s
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Show Notes
Fifty years on from the launch of the world’s first commercial home video game console – the Magnavox Odyssey – John Wills talks to Matt Elton about how videogames have reflected the world around them over the past half century, and the ways in which history and gaming increasingly overlap.
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