Battle for the Living Room: from Atari to the Console Wars
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Show Notes
The next generation of gaming is about to arrive, which makes this the perfect time to take a look at how we got here. Join the boys for a guided tour through the cutthroat history of gaming, and the battle for the living room.
In this episode:
- Edward Uhler Condon and the NIMATRON
- Ferranti and the NIMROD
- Ralph Baer and the Brown Box
- Magnavox and the Odyssey
- Atari and the VCS (2600)
- Activision
- 1983 Atari Shock, ET, and subpar PacMan
- The rise of Nintendo
- Famicon becomes the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
- NES becomes the Super NES
- TurboGrafx-16 and the 16-bit revolution
- The Atari Jaguar flames out
- The rise of Sega
- The genesis of the Genesis
- The story of Sonic
- The golden era of SNES: Metroid, Street Fighter, Zelda, Mega Man
- The rise of Sony
- 32 and 64 bits
- The Nintendo 64
- The Sega Saturn
- Playstation crushes the competition
- The decline of Nintendo and the Gamecube debacle
- Microsoft gets in the game
- Enter the Xbox
- Xbox 360 and the Red Ring of Death
- Playstation 2
- Playstation 3
- Xbox One
- Xbox Series X and the Playstation 5
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