Arcade Boom and the Crash

When pixels hit the mainstream: Pong to Space Invaders, Atari's two-billion-dollar rise, the E.T. excavation, and the 1983 crash that ended the first video game era.

Playlist by @pixel_history

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. A brief history of video games (Part I) - Safwat Saleem — TED-Ed
2. The Dawn of Video Games: Crash Course Games #3 — CrashCourse
3. How Space Invaders Birthed Japanese Games — Game Maker's Toolkit
4. Early Video Game History (1948 – 1972) — ColdFusion
5. From $2 Billion to Nothing - The Rise and Fall of Atari — ColdFusion
6. Excavating the Atari E.T. Video Game Burial Site-Game|Life-WIRED — WIRED
7. Atari: Game Over — William McKeown
8. The Video Game Crash of 1983 - Gaming Historian — Gaming Historian
9. The Video Game Crash of 1983: Crash Course Games #6 — CrashCourse
10. CRASH: The Year Video Games Died — Ahoy