Arcade Era
Pong and the Birth of Atari: How a Tennis Game Started an Industry
How Nolan Bushnell, Ted Dabney and Allan Alcorn turned a simple tennis game into Atari's first hit, plus the Odyssey patent fight and Home Pong.
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Console History
The Video Game Crash of 1983: What Happened and Why It Mattered
Why the North American console market collapsed between 1983 and 1985, what caused it, and how the crash shaped Nintendo's careful launch of the NES.