Ep. 60: Computer Space

Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 8 a.m.

Alex Smith returns to the show, this time to talk about Computer Space: a 1971 arcade game often considered the beginning of the commercial video game industry. Continuing the annotation series of his book, \u201cThey Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. I\u201d, Alex Smith has condensed down the history of this first coin-operated video game in his recent blog post: Worldly Wednesdays: A Timeline Of Computer Space. Always the thorough historian, Alex Smith treats us to an incredibly educational hour of video game history.

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See more from Alex Smith:

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Website: theycreateworlds.com

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Blog: videogamehistorian.wordpress.com

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Podcast: podcast.theycreateworlds.com

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Book: https://www.routledge.com/They-Create-Worlds-The-Story-of-the-People-and-Companies-That-Shaped-the/Smith/p/book/9781138389908