CNBC examines the history of the video game industry from the first tennis game developed for an oscilloscope to the Atari and video arcade game boom of the early 1980s. It looks at the history of electronic game all the way up to the current Nintendo, Playstation, and Xbox game systems.
Bob Waldman
Director, Writer
Nolan Bushnell
Himself - Video Game Engineer
Bill Griffeth
Himself - Narrator
Ralph H. Baer
Himself - Magnavox Odyssey Inventor
Howard Lincoln
Himself - Former Chairman, Nintendo of America
Michael Katz
Himself - Former President, Sega America
Tom Kalinske
Himself - Former President, Sega America
Kaz Hirai
Himself - President, Sony Computer Entertainment of America
Al Alcorn
Himself - Pong Inventor
Alan Miller
Himself - Atari Game Designer
Free to Play68%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
The Class of ‘9271%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Heart of a Dog65%
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin70%
In Search of the Last Action Heroes70%
Superheroes65%
Lemmy75%
Being James Bond77%
Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show64%
My Mom Jayne80%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Next Goal Wins70%
Capital in the Twenty-First Century65%
The September Issue65%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
My Kid Could Paint That70%
Hawking76%
Maradona by Kusturica63%
