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Video games at 50: a cultural history

Video games at 50: a cultural history

Fifty years on from the launch of the first commercial home video game console, John Wills discusses the history of the gaming industry

Matt Elton

Published: April 27, 2022 at 12:29 PM

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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 video games have reflected the world around them over the past half century, and the ways in which history and gaming increasingly overlap.

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Matt EltonPodcast editor

Matt Elton is the podcast editor at HistoryExtra