History Channel doing special on vintage video games

[MagicMajenta]

It's showing right now as I'm typing this. It's now talking about the Atari 2600.

EDIT: They moved on to other stuff. Now it's on the VCR. Guess the entire show isn't on video games. But a sort of tech show.

[MrRoboto19XX]

I just finished watching, well done and intresting!

[Lemmi_Is_God]

its called modern marvels and the videogame stuff is at the very beginning, its about the gadgets of the 1980s

i saw it a few months ago

[diskoboy]

I saw that a while back. It is good...

I meant to record it, but I forgot to set the DVR. It came on again while I was asleep.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I've seen the program you're talking about, it was an episode of modern marvels I think. Now-the-less I thought the show was pretty interesting.

[Damaniel]

In addition to the show about 80's tech, my Tivo taped an episode of Modern Marvels about 70's tech. I've seen the 80's tech show before, but the 70's episode must have been new. The beginning of this show talked about the Magnavox Odyssey and the founding of Atari, including interviews with both Ralph Baer and Nolan Bushnell, and a old (~1970) video of Baer demoing the technology behind the Odyssey by playing the table tennis game.

I don't know when this episode is scheduled to play again, but it's worth catching if you can (they also talk about some interesting non-videogame related gadgets like the first pocket calculators, Speak and Spell, and the Polaroid SX-70).