The History of Video Games (Google Video)

A Discovery Channel documentary, very informative but aimed at laymen so don't get your pedantic hardcore gamer head in a frenzy =]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3637639460474263178&q=history+of+video+games&pl=true

Thanks for posting it up. Yea its quite a simple zoomed out look at things, but it happily wasted 40 mins of mine :)

Very interesting, it inspired me :D

I want to now stay up all night and program, but I have school tomorrow :(

Thats a good find!!

Great stuff!

Interesting :o)

Really nice documentary!

I'll watch this later or in a tea break.

really good stuff!!! You would think they would make a movie about the birth of early video gamming by now...but then again, it would probably be quite dull...but theres always ways to spice it up using "wire-fu", bullet-time, throw in the some mindless violence for entertainment purposes!

Good stuff, mostly I got this all from reading Game Over 5 times ... it's nice to have it compressed though into a 46 minute video ;)

Thanks! My first VCS game was Missile Command. :O)

Great! That Atari thing is soo cool, it's like a classic moment in history.

So lots missing, but it was interesting. My era was the Spec and C64 era, followed by Amigas :-)

So the program only really covers 4 stories (and realted stuff):

Atari
Code Masters
Nintendo
Tetris