Rise of the Video Game
A comprehensive and progressive exploration of the past, present and future of videogames and video gamers.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Level 1
21-11-20071hIn the 1950s, the Cold War quickly evolved between the world superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union. Mutually assured destruction enforced an uneasy stalemate, yet a...
- Ep 2
2.Level 2
28-11-20071hIn the late 1970s and 1980s, instead of controlling "things" like spaceships and tennis rackets, videogame technology let players command recognizable characters with real faces an...
- Ep 3
3.Level 3
05-12-20071hWith games like Castle Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom, video games grew from their primitive 2-D roots into richly detailed 3-D worlds. These groundbreaking 3-D games led the industry do...
- Ep 4
4.Level 4
12-12-20071hEver since the invention of the computer, man has feared "the machine" and its ability to think. But a computer's unique computational power has also led to the development of unpr...
- Ep 5
5.Level 5
19-12-20071hThe advent of the Internet has changed everything — including videogames. When ARPNET, a military precursor to the Internet, went live in 1969, gamers almost immediately began usin...
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