33 min listen
Video games at 50: a cultural history
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Apr 27, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
Fifty years on from the launch of the world’s first commercial home video game console – the Magnavox Odyssey – John Wills talks to Matt Elton about how videogames have reflected the world around them over the past half century, and the ways in which history and gaming increasingly overlap. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Apr 27, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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