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The History of How We Play

Video game history, pontifications, and other ludic touches.

Play History, Episode #5

Home consoles arrive. Atari is born. Oregon lights up schools around the country. This is the beginning of everything.

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2022, The Losses

An ode to the lost game designers, artists, and executives who passed away in 2022.

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Play History, Episode #4

The space age comes to video games. Computer Space, Star Trek, Galaxy Game, and more.

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Play History, Episode #3

Who gets to play? Why not everybody! Episode 3 of Play History.

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Play History, Episode #2

Tennis and baseball and space war... Oh my!

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Play History, Episode #1

Video gaming's origins, and much, much more.

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The First Video Game Console, A New History

Fifty years after Magnavox released the Odyssey, what can we learn from its story? What is the true story?

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Miyamoto’s Quote, Pac-Man, E3, and the Role of Hype Culture in Video Game History

How we expect games now is not how we expected them before the dawn of the modern hype cycle.

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The Forgotten First GDC: Gametronics

A meeting of the minds for the video game industry lost to the dusts of history. Now it lives again.

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Celebrating A Luminary: The Life of Jim Nitchals

One of the most important programmers of the 8 and 16 bit age. His story, and how games were changed because of him.

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The History of How We Play is a blog dedicated to the examination of video games, run by Ethan Johnson.

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