Battle for the Living Room: from Atari to the Console Wars

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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